Posted on August 30th, 2009. I've been hanging out in the #mercurial and #bitbucket channels on freenode a lot lately, and I've noticed a topic that comes up a lot is "how does Mercurial's branching differ from git's branching?" A while ago Nick Quaranto and I were talking about Mercurial and git's branching models on Twitter and I wrote out a quick longreply about the main differences. Since then