diff --git a/git-filter-repo b/git-filter-repo
index a24abd8..126e0c0 100755
--- a/git-filter-repo
+++ b/git-filter-repo
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ class Progress(_GitElement):
     self.dumped = 1
 
     file_.write('progress %s\n' % self.message)
-    #file_.write('\n')
+    file_.write('\n')
 
 class Checkpoint(_GitElement):
   """