diff --git a/maven-meeper/src/bin/post-commit-pom.sh b/maven-meeper/src/bin/post-commit-pom.sh
index e954f89eb5..ad45f6aca0 100755
--- a/maven-meeper/src/bin/post-commit-pom.sh
+++ b/maven-meeper/src/bin/post-commit-pom.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+set -x
+
 svnlook=/usr/local/subversion/bin/svnlook 
 repos=/home/projects/maven/repository-staging/to-ibiblio/maven2
 
 $svnlook changed -r $2 $1 | egrep '\.pom$' | while read t1 t2
 do
+  mkdir -p `dirname $repos/$t2`
   $svnlook cat -r $2 $1 $t2 >$repos/$t2
   sha1sum $repos/$t2 >$repos/$t2.sha1
   md5sum $repos/$t2 >$repos/$t2.md5