[ezst]

> The bookmarks feature which is supposed to be the solution for short-lived branches is hard to understand though.

yup, it came up as a response to git and people getting more and more re-wired into thinking of "branches as pointers", with its own bag of implicit state and behaviour. No wonder it felt clunky and unpolished used in this context. That said, it was a pretty effective way to globally distribute a namespace of string→commitID pairs, i.e. a list of commit bookmarks, and at least in that sense the feature wasn't a total misnomer/let-down :-)