On Mar 10, 8:51 am, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > ## Primary and secondary commodities > > It is a general convention within Ledger that the "top" postings in a > transaction contain the target accounts, while the final posting contains the > source account. Whenever a commodity is exchanged like this, the commodity > moved to the target account is considered "secondary", while the commodity > used for purchasing and tracked in the cost is "primary". > > Said another way, whenever Ledger sees a posting cost of the form "AMOUNT @ > AMOUNT", the commodity used in the second amount is marked "primary". > > The only meaning a primary commodity has is that -V flag will never convert a > primary commodity into any other commodity. -X still will, however.
Is that really important? I have 10% of my transactions with "top" posting as source, and "final" posting as target. And IMHO, I do prefer that source is first, and target is last. Can I safely ignore this ledger convention? I realize also that I am never using -V, but only -X, and this may be the explanation.
