From f7b9d523e34d9db1865dcd23236c06a71aa9b9a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ismael Juma <ismael@juma.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 10:27:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MINOR: Fix sftp_mkdir in release.py

Author: Ismael Juma <ismael@juma.me.uk>

Reviewers: Damian Guy <damian.guy@gmail.com>

Closes #3789 from ijuma/ftp-release-py-fixes

(cherry picked from commit b1871e5adf3fef7256a75d09b812c6ba64791ff4)
Signed-off-by: Damian Guy <damian.guy@gmail.com>
---
 release.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/release.py b/release.py
index 022180a6acf..5e6dfbb0963 100755
--- a/release.py
+++ b/release.py
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ def user_ok(msg):
 
 def sftp_mkdir(dir):
     basedir, dirname = os.path.split(dir)
+    if not basedir:
+       basedir = "."
     try:
        cmd_str  = """
 cd %s