Now there's interesting. I had a go with NetBeans on my laptop while I 
was in Switzerland, and it didn't keep giving me random build failures 
for no apparent reason. And while it was still slow, it wasn't 
unacceptably unresponsive. All of which is interesting, because when I 
originally tried it out, it was running on a more powerful PC. 
(Admittedly in a VM, but it's using hardware virtualisation, and no 
other applications seemed unduly slow.)

Also, it appears that NetBeans has wired-in support for Git, Mercurial 
and Subversion. Obviously my source control system of choice is not 
supported, largely because nobody has ever heard of it. I did try to use 
Git though. I /presume/ it's recording my changes, because damned if I 
can find any way of, you know, /looking at/ the change history. :-P Just 
to be confusing, NetBeans keeps its own session history as well, so if 
you just accidentally edited the wrong file or something, you can 
quickly pull up the last few diffs and revert them.

Is there some kind of tool you can use to /actually see/ what's in a Git 
repository? Because NetBeans isn't being very helpful here.

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