diff -r 68a30daead3f -r 9e874ee0fe97 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Jul 20 14:00:47 2010 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Jul 13 03:04:14 2010 +0200
@@ -3167,7 +3167,7 @@
                     ui.note(_('saving current version of %s as %s\n') %
                             (rel, bakname))
                     if not opts.get('dry_run'):
-                        util.copyfile(target, bakname)
+                        util.rename(target, bakname)
                 if ui.verbose or not exact:
                     msg = xlist[1]
                     if not isinstance(msg, basestring):