From 2ecc89577575e797ce37e097b1720faba4949ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Witt <switt@lyx.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:44:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ensure VCS::checkparentdirs() starts with an absolute path
 (ticket #8295)

---
 src/VCBackend.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/VCBackend.cpp b/src/VCBackend.cpp
index ced550df1c..55a145cbf8 100644
--- a/src/VCBackend.cpp
+++ b/src/VCBackend.cpp
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ bool VCS::makeRCSRevision(string const &version, string &revis) const
 
 bool VCS::checkparentdirs(FileName const & file, std::string const & pathname)
 {
-	FileName dirname = file.onlyPath();
+	FileName dirname = FileName(file.absFileName()).onlyPath();
 	FileName tocheck = FileName(addName(dirname.absFileName(),pathname));
 	LYXERR(Debug::LYXVC, "check file: " << tocheck.absFileName());
 	bool result = tocheck.exists();