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Yes, but Monotone has been around for several years longer than Git. Git was in fact inspired by the
design of Monotone, but implemented to be much more efficient and to work better as a plumbing
system that you could wrap porcelain around. Monotone is a big monolithic blob of C++, so it's
fairly difficult to link to, and only around the time that Git was being developed did Monotone start
addding a scripting interface with a standardized, parseable output format. And even still, there
doesn't appear to be very good porcelain around it, while Git's design has meant that more
porcelain has been written more quickly.