Re: Git clone behaviour change in 1.5.6 (vs 1.5.5.1)

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Kalle Vahlman wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Switching to the 1.5.6 release from 1.5.5.1, I found out that the
> rewritten git-clone command changed its behaviour wrt cloning to a
> non-existing destination directory structure. In the shell version the
> destination (work tree) is created with 'mkdir -p' but in the C
> version with just the mkdir() call which doesn't create the parent
> directories.
> 
> I can't find any indication that this would be intended in the repo
> history nor in the mailing list, so I'm left thinking that this is an
> unwanted regression. Could someone confirm this?

It wasn't an intentional change, anyway.

	-Daniel
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