# How is \`pijul log\` output sorted?

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**Created:** [March 7, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/how-is-pijul-log-output-sorted/1032 "2023-03-07T18:54:24Z")\
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That’s handy. I had assumed that because changes in Pijul aren’t inherently ordered, there would be no way to view the history of a channel in the order that it happened. But since `pijul log` preserves the order that changes were applied, it gives us a nice “linear history”, just like Git users strive for. (Although it’s not quite accurate if a change was removed with `unrecord`.)

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