--- a/mercurial/templatekw.py	Thu Nov 21 12:47:03 2013 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/templatekw.py	Thu Nov 21 11:49:31 2013 -0600
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@
     'parents': _showparents,
 }
 dockeywords.update(keywords)
+del dockeywords['branches']
 
 # tell hggettext to extract docstrings from these functions:
 i18nfunctions = dockeywords.values()