From d5f415e6f5c1f3930a4651c2804cd4e2205a79de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 01:34:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
 checkout-cache.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/checkout-cache.c b/checkout-cache.c
index 367b9c799..244ebd122 100644
--- 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)",
-- 
2.26.2