diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8b040bd..ab382ac3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 - Fixed issue where 403 errors were being raised during a user driven permission sync against a self-hosted code host. [#729](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/729)
+- Fixed "ambiguous argument 'HEAD^{commit}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree" error for blank repositories. [#733](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/733)
 
 ## [4.10.8] - 2026-01-13
 
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/git.ts b/packages/backend/src/git.ts
index 948b1f3b..89977001 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/git.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/git.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { env } from "@sourcebot/shared";
+import { env, createLogger } from "@sourcebot/shared";
 import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { mkdir } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import { CheckRepoActions, GitConfigScope, simpleGit, SimpleGitProgressEvent } f
 
 type onProgressFn = (event: SimpleGitProgressEvent) => void;
 
+const logger = createLogger('git-utils');
+
 /**
  * Creates a simple-git client that has it's working directory
  * set to the given path.
@@ -292,7 +294,7 @@ export const getCommitHashForRefName = async ({
         // @note: Was hitting errors when the repository is empty,
         // so we're catching the error and returning undefined.
     } catch (error: unknown) {
-        console.error(error);
+        logger.debug(error);
         return undefined;
     }
 }
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