[pacemkr]

I'm aware of both. Personally I find this to be an inferior solution. Using a patch queue as a local branch just feels wrong. Neither is using bookmarks an effective solution. Both solution make the decision to branch a much more deliberate process, and in the end you still don't get a branch that is equal to its peers.

As the result, in hg, you have to decide in advance "what kind of branch" it will be -- or you have to get in the habit of using mq's for everything -- and this just not a natural experience especially for a DVCS where branching is just fundamental.