[Bug 3710] New: Cannot update to a branch with ':' in the name

[Robert Sebestyen]

 <bugzilla-daemon <at> bz.selenic.com> writes:

> Starting with v2.4, this no longer seems possible.  I started looking into the
> code (specifically, the setbranch function in dirstate.py), but I am not sure
> how best to proceed.
> 

I have this exact same problem!

Is Mercurial team going to provide a workaround for this?