Recurse into subdirectories when creating directories, toojmac/virtual_directory_2

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/buildstream/storage/_casbaseddirectory.py b/buildstream/storage/_casbaseddirectory.py
index 59ca76f78..7a31bcea9 100644
--- a/buildstream/storage/_casbaseddirectory.py
+++ b/buildstream/storage/_casbaseddirectory.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ class CasBasedDirectory(Directory):
             if create:
                 # Adding an entry to this node makes it a new node. What do we do then?
                 newdir = self._add_new_blank_directory(subdirectory_spec[0])
-                return newdir
+                return newdir.descend(subdirectory_spec[1:], create)
             else:
                 error = "No entry called '{}' found in {}. There are directories called {}."
                 raise VirtualDirectoryError(error.format(subdirectory_spec[0], str(self), ",".join([entry.name for entry in self.directory.directories])))