diff --git a/laravel/cli/tasks/bundle/providers/github.php b/laravel/cli/tasks/bundle/providers/github.php
index 0ccb2ca5..6bfd9a4a 100644
--- a/laravel/cli/tasks/bundle/providers/github.php
+++ b/laravel/cli/tasks/bundle/providers/github.php
@@ -12,14 +12,23 @@ public function install($bundle)
 	{
 		$repository = "git@github.com:{$bundle['location']}.git";
 
+		$path = array_get($bundle, 'path', $bundle['name']);
+
+		// If the installation target directory doesn't exist, we will create
+		// it recursively so that we can properly add the Git submodule for
+		// the bundle when we install.
+		if ( ! is_dir(path('bundle').$path))
+		{
+			mkdir(path('bundle').$path, 0777, true);
+		}
+
 		// We need to just extract the basename of the bundle path when
 		// adding the submodule. Of course, we can't add a submodule to
 		// a location outside of the Git repository, so we don't need
-		// the full bundle path. We'll just take the basename in case
-		// the bundle directory has been renamed.
-		$path = basename(path('bundle')).'/';
+		// the full bundle path.
+		$root = basename(path('bundle')).'/';
 
-		passthru('git submodule add '.$repository.' '.$path.$bundle['name']);
+		passthru('git submodule add '.$repository.' '.$root.$path);
 
 		passthru('git submodule update');
 	}
diff --git a/laravel/file.php b/laravel/file.php
index 713d850b..d497ada8 100644
--- a/laravel/file.php
+++ b/laravel/file.php
@@ -220,5 +220,4 @@ public static function cpdir($source, $destination)
 		}
 	}
 
-
 }
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