Improve your Magento workflow: Use git or mercurial
Most of our new projects at work are on mercurial and I've moved most of my personal projects over to git. We do, unfortunately, still have one Magento install that lives in our old subversion repository. If you've ever tried to work with a project the size of Magento in SVN with branching, you know the kind of pain this can cause. My machine at work is no slouch. An i7, 8 gigs of ram, 256 megs graphics card, and an SSD. Perfect for any number of high performance or online games, compiling, or video…