diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/patch.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/patch.go
index f3d6d9647..28e6c54ad 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/git_commands/patch.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/patch.go
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ func (self *PatchCommands) PullPatchIntoNewCommitBefore(
 		return err
 	}
 
+	if err := self.pickCopyWithPatchInParent(commits[commitIdx]); err != nil {
+		_ = self.rebase.AbortRebase()
+		return err
+	}
+
 	if err := self.ApplyCustomPatch(false, false); err != nil {
 		_ = self.rebase.AbortRebase()
 		return err
@@ -432,14 +437,15 @@ func (self *PatchCommands) PullPatchIntoNewCommitBefore(
 	return self.rebase.ContinueRebase()
 }
 
-// When moving the patch to an earlier commit, we apply it to that commit, and
-// the rebase then picks the commit that the patch was built from. Picking that
-// commit unchanged would rely on git noticing that the patch is already
-// applied, and git doesn't always notice this. If the patch contains only some
-// of several adjacent added lines, the pick conflicts; if git can place the
-// patch's added lines in more than one position, it may add them a second
-// time. So we make the rebase pick a copy of the commit instead, whose parent
-// already contains the patch.
+// When moving the patch to an earlier commit, or into a new commit before the
+// one it was built from, we first apply it there, and the rebase then picks
+// the commit that the patch was built from. Picking that commit unchanged
+// would rely on git noticing that the patch is already applied, and git
+// doesn't always notice this. If the patch contains only some of several
+// adjacent added lines, the pick conflicts; if git can place the patch's added
+// lines in more than one position, it may add them a second time. So we make
+// the rebase pick a copy of the commit instead, whose parent already contains
+// the patch.
 func (self *PatchCommands) pickCopyWithPatchInParent(commit *models.Commit) error {
 	copyHash, err := self.copyCommitWithPatchInParent(commit)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_ambiguously_placed_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go b/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_ambiguously_placed_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
index e10cf853d..275411f1d 100644
--- a/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_ambiguously_placed_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
+++ b/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_ambiguously_placed_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
@@ -62,10 +62,7 @@ var MoveAmbiguouslyPlacedAddedLinesToNewCommitBefore = NewIntegrationTest(NewInt
 
 		t.FileSystem().FileContent(
 			"file1",
-			/* EXPECTED:
 			Equals("first line\nextra line\n}\nadded line\n}\nlast line\n"),
-			ACTUAL: */
-			Equals("first line\nextra line\n}\nadded line\n}\nadded line\n}\nlast line\n"),
 		)
 	},
 })
diff --git a/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_part_of_adjacent_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go b/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_part_of_adjacent_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
index 56c3ad038..5642ae6a5 100644
--- a/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_part_of_adjacent_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
+++ b/pkg/integration/tests/main_view/move_part_of_adjacent_added_lines_to_new_commit_before.go
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ var MovePartOfAdjacentAddedLinesToNewCommitBefore = NewIntegrationTest(NewIntegr
 
 		t.Views().Commits().
 			IsFocused().
-			/* EXPECTED:
 			Lines(
 				Contains("commit to move from").IsSelected(),
 				Contains("new commit"),
@@ -62,13 +61,5 @@ var MovePartOfAdjacentAddedLinesToNewCommitBefore = NewIntegrationTest(NewIntegr
 			Tap(func() {
 				t.Views().Main().Content(Contains("+1st line").DoesNotContain("2nd line"))
 			})
-			ACTUAL: */
-			Lines(
-				Contains("─── Pending rebase todos"),
-				Contains("pick").Contains("<-- CONFLICT --- commit to move from"),
-				Contains("─── Commits"),
-				Contains("new commit"),
-				Contains("first commit"),
-			)
 	},
 })