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Author SHA1 Message Date
Simon Michael
b1f3880c3d lib: drop the file format auto-detection feature
For a long time hledger has auto-detected the file format when it's
not known, eg when reading from a file with unusual extension (like
.dat or .txt), or from standard input (-f-), or when using the include
directive (which currently ignores file extensions).

Auto-detecting has been done by trying all readers until one succeeds.
This could guess wrong in some cases, but it was so rare that it has
been working fine.

Recently, more conveniences have been added to timedot format,
increasing its overlap with journal format, which makes this kind of
auto-detection unreliable.

Auto-detection and auto-detection failures are (probably) still pretty
rare in practice. But when it does happen it's confusing, giving
misleading errors or false successes (eg printing timedot entries
instead of a journal error).

For predictability and to minimise confusion, hledger no longer tries
to guess; when there's no file extension or reader prefix, it assumes
journal format. To specify one of the other formats, you must use a
standard file extension (.timeclock, .timedot, .csv, .ssv, .tsv), or a
reader prefix (-f csv:foo.txt, -f timedot:-).

For now, the include directive still tries to autodetect
(journal/timeclock/timedot), and this can't be overridden; it will be
fixed later.

Experimental; testing and feedback welcome.
2020-03-01 14:06:29 -08:00
Jakob Schöttl
c7a88b50fb Fix timeclock format parsing
Fix presumably copy-paste errors

timeclock format has only timeclock lines or empty/comment lines

Update test format to v3, add new tests

Throw error on unexpected clock codes in timeclock format

Fix missing case in pattern matching
2020-01-12 13:17:36 -08:00
Brian Wignall
28f9f043e5 Get "make functest" (mostly) working again 2020-01-07 15:58:54 -08:00
Simon Michael
ec56c45c6b ;tests: flatten functional test files a bit
[ci skip]
2019-07-08 08:28:03 +01:00