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NEWS

@@ -6,14 +6,29 @@
 - Error reporting has been greatly improving, now showing full
   contextual information for most error messages.
 
-- Added new --ansi reporting option, which shows negative values as
-  red using ANSI terminal codes; --ansi-invert makes non-negative
-  values red (which makes more sense for income and budget reports,
-  for example).
+- Added --base reporting option, for reporting convertible commodities
+  in their most basic form.  For example, if you read a timeclock file
+  with Ledger, the time values are reported as hour and minutes --
+  whichever is the most compact form.  But with --base, Ledger reports
+  only in seconds.
 
-- Added a new --only predicate, which occurs during transaction
-  processing between --limit and --display.  Here is a summary of how
-  the three supported predicates are used:
+  NOTE: Setting up convertible commodities is easy; here's how to use
+  Ledger for tracking quantities of data, where the most compact form
+  is reported (unless --base is specified):
+
+    C 1.00 Kb = 1024 b
+    C 1.00 Mb = 1024 Kb
+    C 1.00 Gb = 1024 Mb
+    C 1.00 Tb = 1024 Gb
+
+- Added --ansi reporting option, which shows negative values as red
+  using ANSI terminal codes; --ansi-invert makes non-negative values
+  red (which makes more sense for income and budget reports, for
+  example).
+
+- Added --only predicate, which occurs during transaction processing
+  between --limit and --display.  Here is a summary of how the three
+  supported predicates are used:
 
     --limit "a>100"
 

amount.cc

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool do_cleanup = true;
 bool amount_t::keep_price = false;
 bool amount_t::keep_date  = false;
 bool amount_t::keep_tag   = false;
+bool amount_t::keep_base  = false;
 
 #define BIGINT_BULK_ALLOC 0x0001
 #define BIGINT_KEEP_PREC  0x0002
@@ -723,7 +724,7 @@ std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& _out, const amount_t& amt)
   }
 
   amount_t base(amt);
-  if (amt.commodity().larger()) {
+  if (! amount_t::keep_base && amt.commodity().larger()) {
     amount_t last(amt);
     while (last.commodity().larger()) {
       last /= *last.commodity().larger();

amount.h

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ class amount_t
   static bool keep_price;
   static bool keep_date;
   static bool keep_tag;
+  static bool keep_base;
 
  protected:
   void _init();

config.cc

@@ -1129,6 +1129,10 @@ OPT_BEGIN(ansi_invert, "") {
 //
 // Commodity reporting
 
+OPT_BEGIN(base, ":") {
+  amount_t::keep_base = true;
+} OPT_END(base);
+
 OPT_BEGIN(price_db, ":") {
   config->price_db = optarg;
 } OPT_END(price_db);
@@ -1206,6 +1210,7 @@ option_t config_options[CONFIG_OPTIONS_SIZE] = {
   { "ansi-invert", '\0', false, opt_ansi_invert, false },
   { "average", 'A', false, opt_average, false },
   { "balance-format", '\0', true, opt_balance_format, false },
+  { "base", '\0', false, opt_base, false },
   { "basis", 'B', false, opt_basis, false },
   { "begin", 'b', true, opt_begin, false },
   { "budget", '\0', false, opt_budget, false },

config.h

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class config_t
 		      std::list<item_handler<transaction_t> *>& ptrs);
 };
 
-#define CONFIG_OPTIONS_SIZE 88
+#define CONFIG_OPTIONS_SIZE 89
 extern option_t config_options[CONFIG_OPTIONS_SIZE];
 
 void option_help(std::ostream& out);