diff --git a/src/sync_template.sh b/src/sync_template.sh
index 223157dc..cc500e8b 100644
--- a/src/sync_template.sh
+++ b/src/sync_template.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ if [ -s "${TEMPLATE_SYNC_IGNORE_FILE_PATH}" ]; then
   echo "::group::restore ignore file"
   info "restore the ignore file"
   git reset "${TEMPLATE_SYNC_IGNORE_FILE_PATH}"
-  git checkout -- "${TEMPLATE_SYNC_IGNORE_FILE_PATH}"
+  git checkout -- "${TEMPLATE_SYNC_IGNORE_FILE_PATH}" || warn "not able to checkout the former .templatesyncignore file. Most likely the file was not present"
   echo "::endgroup::"
 fi