@cstanhope Git doesn't strictly require branches, but it's rare to create commits on top of a detached head. I also believe there's no way to push commits that aren't associated with a branch or tag.
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I've added syntax highlighting to the prompt of my programming language!
It's not strictly necessary, but it's nice to have. It caught a bug with lexing incomplete string literals too.
I've learnt a little hg recently, and I really like how it distinguishes local branches that haven't been released yet. With git, a local branch is not shown as diverging from the upstream trunk!
Mercurial has strictly more information here with its notion of phases.
Smalltalk has separate True and False classes. Strictly following 'everything is OO', it makes sense: eg different 'not' implementations!