>What happens with the branches that are forked from your branch? Care to elaborate? Do you mean when removing a branch, what happens to forked/child branches?

>What happens with the branches that are forked from your branch? Care to elaborate? Do you mean when removing a branch, what happens to forked/child branches? There is no ambiguity, a change set cannot exist without it's parent or cannot be moved to a different parent without changing its identity. (The revision hash is a function of its ancestors too). So if you remove a branch, the forks/child branches will be removed as well. Anyway, that was just a made up example to show how naming can affect reasoning. I don't think Mercurial or Git allows you to delete branches directly....