monotone documentation

Overview

Monotone is a distributed version control tool. It can help automate many tedious and error-prone tasks in group software development.

• Store multiple versions of files you are working on efficiently.
• Transmit changes to files between you and your colleagues.
• Merge changes you make with those your colleagues make.
• Make notes about your opinion of the quality of versions of files.
• Make decisions about using or ignoring versions, depending on the notes you receive from others.

Please be aware that monotone is a slightly unorthodox version control tool, and many of its concepts are similar — but subtly or significantly different — from concepts with similar names in other version control tools.

• Concepts: Taxonomy of monotone
• Tutorial: A detailed example of using monotone
• Advanced Uses: Going beyond the basics
• Command Reference: Details of each monotone command
• Formats: Formats used by monotone and scripts
• Lua Reference: How Lua is integrated in monotone
• Special Topics: Extra explanations and details
• Default hooks: The standard hook definitions
• General Index: Index of concepts and functions

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