diff --git a/src/applications/repository/daemon/PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon.php b/src/applications/repository/daemon/PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon.php
index b8a693a48f..f4c96b09c9 100644
--- a/src/applications/repository/daemon/PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon.php
+++ b/src/applications/repository/daemon/PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon.php
@@ -117,8 +117,9 @@ final class PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon
           continue;
         }
 
+        $callsign = $repository->getCallsign();
+
         try {
-          $callsign = $repository->getCallsign();
           $this->log("Updating repository '{$callsign}'.");
 
           id(new PhabricatorRepositoryPullEngine())
@@ -150,7 +151,11 @@ final class PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon
           $this->log("Failed to acquire lock.");
         } catch (Exception $ex) {
           $retry_after[$id] = time() + $min_sleep;
-          phlog($ex);
+
+          $proxy = new PhutilProxyException(
+            "Error while fetching changes to the '{$callsign}' repository.",
+            $ex);
+          phlog($proxy);
         }
 
         $this->stillWorking();