;valuation: document the price search limit (#1439)

This commit is contained in:
Simon Michael 2021-01-05 15:59:58 -08:00
parent c40db2b1eb
commit 9abb33d8e7

View File

@ -783,7 +783,12 @@ in this order of preference
a chain of any market prices, including both forward and
reverse prices (1 and 2 above), leading from A to B.
Amounts for which no applicable market price can be found, are not converted.
There is a limit to the length of these price chains; if hledger
reaches that length without finding a complete chain or exhausting
all possibilities, it will give up (with a "gave up" message
visible in `--debug=2` output). That limit is currently 1000.
Amounts for which no suitable market price can be found, are not converted.
## --infer-value: market prices from transactions