From 07a861b637e45f33cfbb9031e6fe4061f31e929c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 21:15:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dgit: clone: Create destination directory before using
 network

We are going to want to check the bpd (apropos of #913648), which
might be a relative path.  We should fail quickly in this case.

No significant functional change.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---
 dgit | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 922d7196..b25d344f 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -3758,10 +3758,12 @@ sub clone ($) {
     }
     printdebug "clone main body\n";
 
-    canonicalise_suite();
-    my $hasgit = check_for_git();
     mkdir $dstdir or fail f_ "create \`%s': %s", $dstdir, $!;
     changedir $dstdir;
+
+    canonicalise_suite();
+    my $hasgit = check_for_git();
+
     runcmd @git, qw(init -q);
     record_maindir();
     setup_new_tree();
-- 
2.30.2