diff -r 391de0bcc722 -r 77b52b864249 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Aug 12 16:12:09 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Aug 13 15:26:32 2005 -0800
@@ -463,6 +463,8 @@
         ui.warn("abort: destination '%s' already exists\n" % dest)
         return 1
 
+    dest = os.path.realpath(dest)
+
     class Dircleanup:
         def __init__(self, dir_):
             self.rmtree = shutil.rmtree