!include directive relative to file broken in 1.50.3

[joeyh]

In ~/.hledger.journal I have:

!include doc/private/money/hledger.journal

That worked with versions up to 1.32.3, but not with hledger 1.50.3 (linux-x86_64):

joey@darkstar:~>hledger bal
hledger: Error: /home/joey/.hledger.journal:3:2:
|
3 | !include doc/private/money/hledger.journal
| ^
No files were matched by glob pattern: doc/private/money/hledger.journal

To get it to work I had to prefix the path with "~/".

According to the documentation, include paths are supposed to be relative to the including file's folder. So for ~/.hledger.journal, paths should be relative to the home directory.

BTW, --old-glob does not change this behavior.

[simonmichael]

@joeyh, thanks for the report. I'm having trouble reproducing it so far.

~$ cat .hledger.journal
include doc/private/money/hledger.journal
~$ hledger-1.50.3 files
/Users/simon/.hledger.journal
/Users/simon/doc/private/money/hledger.journal
~$ hledger-1.50.3 print
2025-11-23 hledger.journal

~$ hledger-1.50.3 --version
hledger 1.50.3-g34bfcd596-20251118, mac-aarch64

I also tried making doc a git repo, and adding private to .gitignore there, just in case.
I've tested on a mac and on a debian machine.
(The ! is very old deprecated Ledger syntax; I tried with that too.)

[simonmichael]

Is there anything of interest if you add --debug=9 ? (after "readJournalFiles:")