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| author | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2023-11-24 23:33:59 -0800 |
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| committer | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2024-08-05 08:35:56 -0700 |
| commit | 67de3bce35de8158cd25750901a322cc02071c95 (patch) | |
| tree | 984346a9cdd73dcd7c9dbc9175143e1f759a8263 /doc | |
| parent | 6e9fda06df1754f58c347e44a4579d059dfd36f0 (diff) | |
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Make xact hashes independent of posting order
Also, support matching provided hashes against a prefixed of the generated
hash.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ledger3.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index b4f3baab..ad41b985 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -6760,9 +6760,15 @@ Record the hash of each transaction in a @var{Hash} metadata value, according to the hashing algorithm given by the @var{ALGO} argument. Note that if a @var{Hash} metadata value is explicitly provided and does not match what would have been generated, an error is -reported. Hashes depend on previous entries, such that setting a single -hash value is sufficient to guarantee the shape of the entire history -leading up to that entry. +reported. This provided value can also just be a prefix, at whatever +length the user wishes, in which case only this amount of text is +compared to the generated hash. Printing the entry with hashes enabled +will display both this explicit metadata setting and the internally +generated hash value. + +Hashes depend on previous entries, such that setting a single hash value +is sufficient to guarantee the shape of the entire history leading up to +that entry. @item --head @var{INT} @itemx --first @var{INT} |