Uff why this? Named branches are made for the development of different features. The graph looks nicely and the merge is easy. How do you merge now? A bookmark is a sort of lightwight branch. It is a tag which 'floats' with the commits. You can use it for branching and substitute named branches , you can delete them at will. A lot of people, including Steve are very fond of them, I don't like it because the graph is not very clear to me. They are very close to git's concept of a branch (git does not have anything comparable to named branches). Ok. I think I found a bug in the newest tip concerning abbrevation but I have to check in the coming days, unfortunately I am quite busy till end of May. Uwe