Your original comment linked broken branches with the fact that they can&#x27;t be deleted. That&#x27;s only true if you intended to talk about Mercurial <i>named branches</i> which aren&#x27;t broken, they just aren&#x27;t what you want them to be.<p>Bookmarks (today, and for several years) work just fine. So &quot;branching&quot; in the general sense isn&#x27;t broken even though the combined feature set is a bit haphazard.<p>That bitbucket doesn&#x27;t work well with bookmarks is a sign of how little Atlassian cares about hg, rather than an hg issue.<p>If you&#x27;re arguing that the hosting options for hg are limited and fall far below the git options, then I&#x27;m not going to disagree.