From ef0c790bd566e712d0ae4d93822b6dbd4ec4f52c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 03:04:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure all directories exist on each deploy which are
 necessary for subsequent commands to succeed, since some SCM's won't save
 empty directories

git-svn-id: http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/tools/capistrano@6918 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 CHANGELOG                        | 2 ++
 lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fc2acaa0..a06b28cf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Make sure all directories exist on each deploy which are necessary for subsequent commands to succeed, since some SCM's won't save empty directories [Matthew Elder]
+
 * Add :default_environment variable, which is applied to every command
 
 
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb b/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb
index fc94f6e0..11542ac5 100644
--- a/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb
+++ b/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb
@@ -147,8 +147,12 @@ namespace :deploy do
   task :finalize_update, :except => { :no_release => true } do
     run "chmod -R g+w #{release_path}" if fetch(:group_writable, true)
 
+    # mkdir -p is making sure that the directories are there for some SCM's that don't
+    # save empty folders
     run <<-CMD
       rm -rf #{release_path}/log #{release_path}/public/system #{release_path}/tmp/pids &&
+      mkdir -p #{release_path}/public &&
+      mkdir -p #{release_path}/tmp &&
       ln -s #{shared_path}/log #{release_path}/log &&
       ln -s #{shared_path}/system #{release_path}/public/system &&
       ln -s #{shared_path}/pids #{release_path}/tmp/pids