Merge branch 'bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs'

"git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>"
not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which is being corrected.

* bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs:
  format-patch: create leading components of output directory

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
index 72b09896cf..9facc3a79e 100755
--- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
+++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
@@ -1606,6 +1606,29 @@ test_expect_success 'From line has expected format' '
 	test_cmp from filtered
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with no leading directories' '
+	rm -fr patches &&
+	git format-patch -o patches master..side &&
+	count=$(git rev-list --count master..side) &&
+	ls patches >list &&
+	test_line_count = $count list
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with leading existing directories' '
+	git format-patch -o patches/side master..side &&
+	count=$(git rev-list --count master..side) &&
+	ls patches/side >list &&
+	test_line_count = $count list
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with leading non-existing directories' '
+	rm -fr patches &&
+	git format-patch -o patches/side master..side &&
+	count=$(git rev-list --count master..side) &&
+	ls patches/side >list &&
+	test_line_count = $count list
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'format-patch format.outputDirectory option' '
 	test_config format.outputDirectory patches &&
 	rm -fr patches &&