We only need to run this once per deploy, I think

run

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ def deploy_file(source_file, target, auth):
     if is_target_http(target):
         run(["curl", "--user", auth, target, "--upload-file", source_file], check=True)
     else:
-        make_parent_dirs(target, auth)
         run(["scp", "-i", auth, "-o", "StrictHostKeyChecking=no", "-o", "PasswordAuthentication=no", "-r", source_file, target], check=True)
 
 temp_file_name = None
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ try:
     else:
         auth = os.environ['PLUGIN_AUTHENTICATION']
 
+    make_parent_dirs(TARGET, auth)
     deploy(SOURCE, TARGET, auth)
 finally:
     if temp_file_name is not None: