From 2b20f9100d30a5ab0c3c1e4754cf531c9e7a69ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 04:03:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add a side effect (yuck) why am i doing this?

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@740 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 src/engine/Group.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/engine/Group.c b/src/engine/Group.c
index 69baca579b..49520385e2 100644
--- a/src/engine/Group.c
+++ b/src/engine/Group.c
@@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ xaccInsertSubAccount( Account *adult, Account *child )
   int retval;
 
   if (NULL == adult) return -1;
-  if (NULL == child) return -1;
 
   /* if a container for the children doesn't yet exist, add it */
   if (NULL == adult->children) {
@@ -406,6 +405,9 @@ xaccInsertSubAccount( Account *adult, Account *child )
   /* set back-pointer to parent */
   adult->children->parent = adult;
 
+  /* allow side-effect of creating a child-less account group */
+  if (NULL == child) return -1;
+
   retval = insertAccount (adult->children, child);
   return retval;
 }