diff --git a/augur/tasks/git/facade_tasks.py b/augur/tasks/git/facade_tasks.py
index 3e781e34df..7ff2300a90 100644
--- a/augur/tasks/git/facade_tasks.py
+++ b/augur/tasks/git/facade_tasks.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def facade_fetch_missing_commit_messages(repo_git):
             
             to_insert.append(msg_record)
         except Exception as e: 
-            logger.info(f'The exception is : {3}.')
+            logger.info(f'The exception is : {e}.')
 
     if to_insert:
         bulk_insert_dicts(logger, to_insert, CommitMessage, ["repo_id","cmt_hash"])