pagodabox/magento-install-optimized — pull request #1 by createdbypete (2012-06-27 11:56:19+00:00)
Title: Upgrading to Magento CE v1.7.0.1. Redis support patched in.

Really appreciated being able to have a Magento Quickstart that was configured to work with Redis as I have heard great things about the performance boost over a standard install and even Memcached so thank you! Version 1.6.1.0 was a bit to old for what I was after as the new 1.7 upgrade includes some worth while improvements which I wanted to make use of, one of them being the introduction of a REST API with oAuth.

I've updated the Magento install and added the Redis code back in to the `/lib` and `/app/code/community` locations. The core override that was implemented in `/app/local/Mage/core/Model/session/Varien.php` was updated manually using a diif to the base 1.7.0.1 file to include the core updates and retain the Redis modification without conflict.

This install deploys fine, I have left my test app up, the app name is `yellowish-yun` under the account **orangepeeled** should you want to take a look for yourselves.

In my repo I have also included a 1.6.2.0 update and added tags for each version (1.6.1.0, 1.6.2.0 and 1.7.0.1) incase you would like to offer different versions in this quick start but I expect most people will want to use the latest version.