diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 182ed05e1404483ecb553c8a4e469a86a77ba27c..7ad8606171fd21b94ffd8b15b972f956d4dfc1a1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ start_caosdb_docker.sh
 src/doc/_apidoc
 /dist/
 *.egg-info
+venv/
+.backups
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
index e532f20e339de243ae4565a12724261452a0eda6..0d28ad5f2924978677a4af48664d5cf1ccfca069 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ def _treat_merge_error_of(newrecord, record):
     """
     for this_p in newrecord.properties:
         that_p = record.get_property(this_p.name)
+
         if that_p is None:
             logger.debug(f"Property {this_p.name} does not exist in the second entity. Note that "
                          "this should not be the reason for the merge conflict.")