&gt; So even today, the &quot;branch&quot; concept in hg is only useful for a small number of cases, and the &quot;bookmarks&quot; concept is what most people want, but they&#x27;re separate things with names that don&#x27;t align with expectations.<p>And it doesn&#x27;t help that the primary hosted repository system is Bitbucket and Bitbucket didn&#x27;t support pull requests from bookmarks last time I checked.