For feature branches, I've seen meaningful uses of named branches, but as a devout Mercurial user, I actually agree that git's "lightweight tag" model of branch

For feature branches, I've seen meaningful uses of named branches, but as a devout Mercurial user, I actually agree that git's "lightweight tag" model of branching feels a little more useful. Hopefully soon hg's bookmarks will be push/pull'able. Also, you totally can push all of your branches to a repo - that's just not the behavior that is allowed by default because often that isn't what the user meant. It's also confusing because bookmarks aren't push-pull capable (yet).