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Their devs hang out in #mercurial in Freenode and have been talking about how to implement Evolve on the bitbucket WUI.

Good to know! I'm looking forward to more news on that front.

If you haven't already, then you can go vote on this issue: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6710/enable-exchange... -- and ask your collegues to do so too! :-)

The Bitbucket devs are nice guys and have said that they do listen to issue feedback like this.

The advantage of changeset evolution is obvious to me. But as a longtime Mercurial user, I don't grok the benefit of bookmarks. Do you have a simple example where a bookmark is more useful than a permanent branch?

The teams I work with don't like the permanence of mercurial named branches. Bookmarks are a nice lightweight alternative way to name a short-lived head rather than creating a permanent tag for a two-line commit. Before bookmarks we used anonymous heads.