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# Monotone Reviews
**Vendor:** Monotone  
**Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software)  
**Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Monotone
monotone is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. It understands history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd party testing.




## Monotone Reviews
  ### 1. The original VSCode 

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ramon B. | Senior Software Engineer, R&D, Broadcast Media, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2017

**What do you like best about Monotone?**

The environment is perfect mono immersion. 

**What do you dislike about Monotone?**

Although it looks a lot like VS it has some differences in organisation that slowed my development flow. 

**Recommendations to others considering Monotone:**

Go for it! it is built with open source development in Mono in mind. 

**What problems is Monotone solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I used it to learn the Mono/C# library. I rewrote an app that was written in VisualStudio. 


## Monotone Discussions
  - [What is Monotone used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/monotone-what-is-monotone-used-for)
  - [What is Monotone used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-monotone-used-for)

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