# Working "without" channels

**URL:** <https://discourse.pijul.org/t/working-without-channels/1047>\
**Category:** Question\
**Created:** [May 9, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/working-without-channels/1047 "2023-05-09T11:17:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/working-without-channels/1047/4 "2023-05-09T19:29:18Z")

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I modified the shell script that is in the pijul folder to generate a HTML file to visualize the dependency graph. See [Dependency graph](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/dependency-graph/933/)

> [@spacefrogg](#):
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> Like in git, in pijul, changes know about their dependencies.  
> …in pijul you need to know all independent changes and can retrace all other changes from there.

This is a bit confusing because something independent has no dependencies, but it could have dependents. So, can you say that the change of a line in a file is dependent on the change that created the file, and the only root changes are those that create files?

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