Correct. I used Mercurial with Redmine and you could tag your checkins with special text "closes #39" for example. It's quite a bit more cumbersome than having

Correct. I used Mercurial with Redmine and you could tag your checkins with special text "closes #39" for example. It's quite a bit more cumbersome than having a filtered query alongside your checkin dialog that you can just tick a checkbox. Especially when your development team has a, let's say, mix of skill levels.