diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fdce82b..2154600 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ omnibus-gitlab repository.
 - Pass environment variables to Unicorn and Sidekiq (Chris Portman)
 - Add openssl_verify_mode to SMTP email configuration (Dionysius Marquis)
 - Enable the 'ssh_host' field in gitlab.yml (Florent Baldino)
+- Create git's home directory if necessary
 
 7.1.0
 - Build: explicitly use .forward for sending notifications
diff --git a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/users.rb b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/users.rb
index 6d9cc08..1423b9d 100644
--- a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/users.rb
+++ b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/users.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ gitlab_username = node['gitlab']['user']['username']
 gitlab_group = node['gitlab']['user']['group']
 gitlab_home = node['gitlab']['user']['home']
 
+directory gitlab_home do
+  recursive true
+end
+
 # Create the group for the GitLab user
 group gitlab_group do
   gid node['gitlab']['user']['gid']
--
libgit2 0.21.2