Comment by timv

Your original comment linked broken branches with the fact that they can't be deleted. That's only true if you intended to talk about Mercurial named branches which aren't broken, they just aren't what you want them to be.

Bookmarks (today, and for several years) work just fine. So "branching" in the general sense isn't broken even though the combined feature set is a bit haphazard.

That bitbucket doesn't work well with bookmarks is a sign of how little Atlassian cares about hg, rather than an hg issue.

If you're arguing that the hosting options for hg are limited and fall far below the git options, then I'm not going to disagree.