diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4fb6fbf0..10cf3c6f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
   ([!669](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/669))
 
 ### Fixed
+* fix build-logs dissapearing when deploying
+  ([!685](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/685))
 * do not crash when system encoding can not be retrieved
   ([!671](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/671))
 * checkupdates: UpdateCheckIngore gets properly observed now
diff --git a/fdroidserver/common.py b/fdroidserver/common.py
index 5429d924..e63320db 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/common.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/common.py
@@ -3253,6 +3253,9 @@ def deploy_build_log_with_rsync(appid, vercode, log_content):
         logging.warning(_('skip deploying full build logs: log content is empty'))
         return
 
+    if not os.path.exists('repo'):
+        os.mkdir('repo')
+
     # gzip compress log file
     log_gz_path = os.path.join('repo',
                                '{pkg}_{ver}.log.gz'.format(pkg=appid,
diff --git a/tests/common.TestCase b/tests/common.TestCase
index f99150ea..45e43f6f 100755
--- a/tests/common.TestCase
+++ b/tests/common.TestCase
@@ -1008,8 +1008,14 @@ class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         with mock.patch('subprocess.call',
                         side_effect=assert_subprocess_call):
-            fdroidserver.common.deploy_build_log_with_rsync(
-                'com.example.app', '4711', mocklogcontent)
+            with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir, TmpCwd(tmpdir):
+                fdroidserver.common.deploy_build_log_with_rsync(
+                    'com.example.app', '4711', mocklogcontent)
+
+                expected_log_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'repo', 'com.example.app_4711.log.gz')
+                self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(expected_log_path))
+                with gzip.open(expected_log_path, 'r') as f:
+                    self.assertEqual(f.read(), mocklogcontent)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":