It constrains the file architecture, and in particular means you have to carefully duplicate a lot of include directives to have different main.beancount files tracking the same (or mostly the same) ledger.
Sincerely, Timothy Jesionowski On Tue, Mar 3, 2026, 5:31 AM David Avraamides <[email protected]> wrote: > Couldn't you just include accounts.beancount in main.beancount before > banking.beancount and income.beancount? That's what I do. My main.bean > (simplified) is: > > ; global stuff > include "commodities.bean" > include "accounts.bean" > include "prices.bean" > > ; individual account history > include "data/amazon_david.bean" > include "data/amazon_karen.bean" > include "data/amex_david.bean" > include "data/amex_karen.bean" > (many more individual account includes...) > ... > > And then I don't have any other include statements in the account-specific > bean files. > > Or does that not address your problem? > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM Aaron Stacy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The beancount loader has an error if a file is imported multiple times ( >> code >> <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/eb8be17c750257dc693e3173c30d2cabc9ab2faa/beancount/loader.py#L440> >> ). >> >> I noticed because I was trying to organize my ledger something like this: >> >> [image: ledger_deps.png] >> >> And got the error. I want each of banking.beancount and income.beancount >> to include accounts.beancount because my editor plugin will give me errors >> if I don't (since the accounts aren't defined). >> >> Looks like this functionality has been around just about as long as the >> include directive (commit >> <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/commit/1ad7017ca8bba9af7e13ed6613c28f14126b0ea7>), >> and I couldn't find any docs on why this would be an error. >> >> When I remove the error, the loading logic seems to work fine. Any chance >> I could mail a PR to remove this error? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACjABknxqNpEK0EgQK7PVh76sUkO41hF%2B6QxSTR91D6U9Z4kag%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACjABknxqNpEK0EgQK7PVh76sUkO41hF%2B6QxSTR91D6U9Z4kag%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAN5otWNROPuhtxBwE%3D8Fj0wxW9WAQcy3yaFpbPBnZ1aavVjcng%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAN5otWNROPuhtxBwE%3D8Fj0wxW9WAQcy3yaFpbPBnZ1aavVjcng%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAOVsoWT6a-HVCvi6cC13HbuneNFbkUd%2BpnxAzcpTPaRZ_p6RdA%40mail.gmail.com.
