diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8ac51f522..561d0f45c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #1480, #2188: LaTeX: Support math in section titles
 * #2071: Fix same footnote in more than two section titles => LaTeX/PDF Bug
 * #2040: Fix UnicodeDecodeError in sphinx-apidoc when author contains non-ascii characters
+* #2193: Fix shutil.SameFileError if source directory and destination directory are same
 
 
 Release 1.3.3 (released Dec 2, 2015)
diff --git a/sphinx/cmdline.py b/sphinx/cmdline.py
index e411836c3..e9d76bb83 100644
--- a/sphinx/cmdline.py
+++ b/sphinx/cmdline.py
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ def main(argv):
                   file=sys.stderr)
             return 1
         outdir = abspath(args[1])
+        if srcdir == outdir:
+            print('Error: source directory and destination directory are same.',
+                  file=sys.stderr)
+            return 1
     except IndexError:
         parser.print_help()
         return 1