From aea0dac235878ecd84ae78de4061dc48c4a28901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Michael Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 16:12:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bal: warn about #1279 in manual --- hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md index a3027ad4d..f951bec97 100644 --- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md +++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ $ hledger balance By default, accounts are displayed hierarchically, with subaccounts indented below their parent. At each level of the tree, accounts are sorted by [account code](/journal.html#declaring-accounts) if any, then by account name. -Or with `-S/--sort-amount`, by their balance amount. +Or with `-S/--sort-amount`, by their balance amount, largest first. +(Note: `-S` has a [problem](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1279) in hledger 1.11-1.18). "Boring" accounts, which contain a single interesting subaccount and no balance of their own, are elided into the following line for more compact output.