| Monotone is an open source software program | | | | - It provides ease of learning, thus there are no |
| for distributed version control. The design principle | | | | hassles for a software solution company |
| is distributed operation, an idea which was not | | | | - It can import CVS projects |
| heard of prior to the launch of Monotone. This | | | | - The developer community is quiet friendly |
| revolutionary idea stressed on the fact that SCMs | | | | The best part of Monotone is that everyone can |
| should follow a distributed models and not a | | | | work in a complete local way, they just need to |
| centralized one. Today, there are some popular | | | | sync to each other. There is no need of a single |
| distributed SCMs including Monotone, bazaar, | | | | server. Another advantage of this revolutionary |
| mercurial and SVK. | | | | software tool is that every single commit is |
| The design principles of Monotone rely on the | | | | digitally signed. Each and every element is |
| heavy use of cryptographic primitives to track file | | | | mirrored on every node, thus ensuring no errors |
| revisions through secure hash SHA1 and to | | | | and problems in Monotone. |
| authenticate user actions through RSA | | | | A custom software solution firm always |
| cryptographic signatures. | | | | recommends monotone because of its |
| Features of Monotone Software tool: | | | | user-friendliness. Compared to other SCMs like |
| - Monotone supports a variety of networking | | | | mercurial and grit, monotone is quicker and more |
| protocols including netsync, which his more | | | | user-friendly. Software solutions in UK emphasize |
| efficient and robust as it as its own | | | | more on monotone as it has a good |
| IANA-assigned port. Netsync is also supported by | | | | internationalization support and no external |
| a Wireshark plug-in for analyzing traffic. | | | | dependencies. |
| - No separate monotone server as any Monotone | | | | An ideal software solution in UK always opts for |
| client can act as a server. | | | | monotone instead of mercurial and grit as it an |
| - Supports localization and internationalization | | | | efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol, |
| - It is implemented in C++ and has a portable | | | | understands lightweight branches, and runs easily |
| design | | | | on Linux, Mac OS X, UNIX and even Windows! |