[PATCH] create subdirs for symlinks

We may need to create subdirectories, before we can create a
symlink.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/checkout-cache.c b/checkout-cache.c
index 367b9c7991f7e78954805e526d785b715446f1a9..244ebd122601883e15e8aefea33c7daf8249d862 100644 (file)
--- a/checkout-cache.c
+++ b/checkout-cache.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, const char *path)
        case S_IFLNK:
                memcpy(target, new, size);
                target[size] = '\0';
+               create_directories(path);
                if (symlink(target, path)) {
                        free(new);
                        return error("checkout-cache: unable to create symlink %s (%s)",