diff --git a/entities/identity/identity.go b/entities/identity/identity.go
index 0a7642af0777912356a5d300536eb6521700d480..fd9da0625979aa2beb3d2dc0dc88778bc61ecfad 100644
--- a/entities/identity/identity.go
+++ b/entities/identity/identity.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const identityConfigKey = "git-bug.identity"
 var ErrNonFastForwardMerge = errors.New("non fast-forward identity merge")
 var ErrNoIdentitySet = errors.New("No identity is set.\n" +
 	"To interact with bugs, an identity first needs to be created using " +
-	"\"git bug user create\"")
+	"\"git bug user create\" or adopted with \"git bug user adopt\"")
 var ErrMultipleIdentitiesSet = errors.New("multiple user identities set")
 
 func NewErrMultipleMatchIdentity(matching []entity.Id) *entity.ErrMultipleMatch {
diff --git a/repository/gogit.go b/repository/gogit.go
index 7dd5a48dc255ab2f876ac8de4e18b127431d7c47..c1f1fe37d35c6c410ca1a894863c6269bf225d09 100644
--- a/repository/gogit.go
+++ b/repository/gogit.go
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func OpenGoGitRepo(path, namespace string, clockLoaders []ClockLoader) (*GoGitRe
 		localStorage: osfs.New(filepath.Join(path, namespace)),
 	}
 
-	loaderToRun := make([]ClockLoader, len(clockLoaders))
+	loaderToRun := make([]ClockLoader, 0, len(clockLoaders))
 	for _, loader := range clockLoaders {
 		loader := loader
 		allExist := true