diff --git a/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json b/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
index c4da12d1b9..50d3ee18f3 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
+++ b/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@
   "git_integration_info": "",
   "github_commit_message_placeholder": "",
   "github_credentials_expired": "",
+  "github_empty_repository_error": "",
   "github_file_name_error": "",
   "github_for_link_shared_projects": "",
   "github_git_folder_error": "",
diff --git a/services/web/locales/en.json b/services/web/locales/en.json
index 0385287732..25556186fe 100644
--- a/services/web/locales/en.json
+++ b/services/web/locales/en.json
@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@
   "git_integration_lowercase_info": "You can clone your Overleaf project to a local repository, treating your Overleaf project as a remote repository that changes can be pushed to and pulled from.",
   "github_commit_message_placeholder": "Commit message for changes made in __appName__...",
   "github_credentials_expired": "Your GitHub authorization credentials have expired",
+  "github_empty_repository_error": "It looks like your GitHub repository is empty or not yet available. Create a new file on GitHub.com then try again.",
   "github_file_name_error": "This repository cannot be imported, because it contains file(s) with an invalid filename:",
   "github_for_link_shared_projects": "This project was accessed via link-sharing and won’t be synchronised with your GitHub unless you are invited via e-mail by the project owner.",
   "github_git_and_dropbox_integrations": "<0>Github</0>, <0>Git</0> and <0>Dropbox</0> integrations",