diff -r 8e7d64989bb8 -r 30d2fecaab76 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Feb 02 21:01:43 2008 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Feb 03 21:47:07 2008 -0200
@@ -1540,6 +1540,9 @@
                             repo.rollback()
                             raise util.Abort(_('patch is damaged'
                                                ' or loses information'))
+                    # Force a dirstate write so that the next transaction
+                    # backups an up-do-date file.
+                    repo.dirstate.write()
             finally:
                 os.unlink(tmpname)
     finally: