Directory names take precedence over symbolic names consistently.

Previously this was only done for clone.

mercurial/commands.py

@@ -718,8 +718,7 b' def clone(ui, source, dest=None, **opts)'
     if opts['remotecmd']:
         ui.setconfig("ui", "remotecmd", opts['remotecmd'])
 
-    if not os.path.exists(source):
-        source = ui.expandpath(source)
+    source = ui.expandpath(source)
 
     d = Dircleanup(dest)
     abspath = source

mercurial/ui.py

@@ -154,6 +154,10 b' class ui(object):'
         return user
 
     def expandpath(self, loc, root=""):
+        """Return repository location relative to cwd or from [paths]"""
+        if os.path.exists(loc):
+            return loc
+
         paths = {}
         for name, path in self.configitems("paths"):
             m = path.find("://")