Side effect of not requiring brokerage account for zero amoun invest transaction

[Jack Ostroff]

I thought there had been a (relatively) recent change to allow  
investment transactions to not need a brokerage account if there was  
zero amount (i.e, fees equal to the investment amount) but I can't find  
anything in the git log about it.  I do see Bug 408692 which mentions  
this, but it is still marked as REPORTED.

The reason I noticed this is that I have one investment account which  
has only one annual transaction - the annual fee is taken by selling  
exactly enough of the only security in the account.  In the past, this  
resulted in a $0 transaction showing up in the associated brokerage  
account.   I just entered the annual transact (by duplicating last  
year's, and adjusting the amounts.)  Not only does the transaction not  
appear in the Brokerage account, there is no value in the brokerage  
account field.  However, if I edit the transaction, the brokerage  
account DOES show up, but is apparently not saved if the account has a  
zero total.  In addition, this year's transaction looks different from  
last year's in the ledger (I've attached a screen shot) and the  
category for the fee is listed twice, but the memo is not listed.

As it is really just a cosmetic issue, I suppose I'll file a wishlist  
for the two transactions to look more similar, and probably to allow  
the zero amount split to go to the brokerage account (user choice, I  
think it should be allowed as well as not being required).   My  
question here is why would not haveing that extra split cause the  
appearance in the ledger to change?  (Note that if I edit and save the  
older transaction (making and reversing some edit to the memo, for  
example) it gets saved like the new transaction - without the entry for  
the brokerage account.

Jack
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