diff --git a/app/handler/manifest.go b/app/handler/manifest.go
index ba24469..4a35d16 100644
--- a/app/handler/manifest.go
+++ b/app/handler/manifest.go
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ func (hand *Handler) ManifestExists(rctx *router.Context) {
 // pushes of at least 4 megabytes.
 
 // PUT /v2/<name>/manifests/<reference> 201 404
+
 func (hand *Handler) PutManifest(rctx *router.Context) {
 
 	hand.DumpHeaders("PutManifest headers", rctx)
diff --git a/pkg/auxtool/cleandir.go b/pkg/auxtool/cleandir.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a52a410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/auxtool/cleandir.go
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package auxtool
+
+import (
+        "path/filepath"
+        "os"
+        "strings"
+)
+
+func CleanDirs(basedir, datadir string) {
+        separator := string(os.PathSeparator)
+
+        basedir = filepath.Clean(separator + basedir)
+        datadir = filepath.Clean(separator + datadir)
+
+	items := strings.Split(datadir, separator)
+        for i := len(items); i > 0; i-- {
+                p := filepath.Join(items[0:i]...)
+                p = filepath.Clean(separator + p)
+                if p == basedir {
+                        break
+                }
+                fileInfo, err := os.Stat(p)
+                if err != nil {
+                        return
+                }
+                if fileInfo.IsDir() {
+                        err = os.Remove(p)
+                        if err != nil {
+                                return
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+}