Using Ledger

hledger-flow should work with any recent version of hledger.

hledger-flow uses hledger to produce journals, so this page about hledger and Ledger should be relevant for all hledger-flow users.

That said, here are some observations that are specifically relevant to hledger-flow:

When writing out the journal include files, hledger-flow sorts the include statements by filename.

Ledger fails any balance assertions when the transactions aren’t included in chronological order.

An easy way around this is to name your input files so that March’s statement is listed before December’s statement.

Another option is to add --permissive to any ledger command.

So you should easily be able to use both ledger and hledger on these journals if you take care to avoid the few incompatibilities which exists (eg in your rules files or manual journals).