A collection of tools for working with ledger files (for now only one tool though).
ledgerdiff is a chronological diffing tool for ledger files. The tool outputs an ed-style diff of two ledger files that can be read by Vim.
This tool is useful when merging two ledger files using editors like Vim as the tool uses transaction dates to provide more accurate diffs, that is, the tool does the following:
- It chronologically shorts outputted hunks by date.
- It matches blank lines between ledger entries to align same-dated transactions together.
There is already hledger-diff but that tool fills a different niche. hledger-diff parses and interprets the content of the ledger journal and outputs missing transactions, while ledgerdiff does mostly textual parsing and outputs a textual diff.
Unfortunately, the tool is not fully accurate with its chronological diffing due to vim's limitations: neovim/neovim#14522. Once the vim issue is fixed, I can update ledgerdiff to take advantage of the extended format.
Use stack run and stack install to run and install the tools respectively.