Converting from git loses branch names

[David Soria Parra]

> Is this a known problem?  Or perhaps a confusing feature?  Google'ing
> didn't turn up much except someone else noticing the same problem
> converting a git repo of KDE to hg:
No. Git actually has a different notion of a "branch". They are pointers
to commits in the history, but the actual branch information is not stored
in the changesets. In mercurial branch names are assigned to a changeset and
therefore an immutable part of a changeset. If convert would convert the git
branches it would result in immutable branches, which might not be desired.
Therefore, as mercurial doesn't have same way of doing branching as git, 
it is
not 'converted'. So it's expected behaviour

David