diff -r 3ebb457d2189 -r 94114ea3503d mercurial/hg.py
--- a/mercurial/hg.py	Wed Aug 12 12:05:35 2009 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py	Wed Aug 12 12:07:11 2009 -0500
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
 
     if not dest:
         dest = os.path.basename(source)
+    else:
+        dest = ui.expandpath(dest)
 
     if isinstance(source, str):
         origsource = ui.expandpath(source)
@@ -189,6 +191,8 @@
     if dest is None:
         dest = defaultdest(source)
         ui.status(_("destination directory: %s\n") % dest)
+    else:
+        dest = ui.expandpath(dest)
 
     dest = localpath(dest)
     source = localpath(source)