diff --git a/lib/count-loc.js b/lib/count-loc.js
index 6bd2e17730..49bb48aeca 100644
--- a/lib/count-loc.js
+++ b/lib/count-loc.js
@@ -54,7 +54,14 @@ async function countLoc(cwd, include, exclude, dbLanguages, logger) {
         }
     }
     else {
-        logger.warning("Did not find any lines of code in database.");
+        logger.warning("Could not determine the number of lines of code for this repository. " +
+            "Because of this, it will not be possible compare the number of lines " +
+            "of code analyzed by code scanning with the total number of lines of " +
+            "code in the repository. This will not affect the results of the code " +
+            "scan. If you have any questions, you can raise an issue at " +
+            "https://github.com/github/codeql-action/issues. Please include a link " +
+            "to the repository if public, otherwise information code scanning " +
+            "workflow you are using.");
     }
     return lineCounts;
 }
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diff --git a/src/count-loc.ts b/src/count-loc.ts
index 8a1de69f53..f7bd30e2b8 100644
--- a/src/count-loc.ts
+++ b/src/count-loc.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,16 @@ export async function countLoc(
       logger.debug(`  ${language}: ${count}`);
     }
   } else {
-    logger.warning("Did not find any lines of code in database.");
+    logger.warning(
+      "Could not determine the number of lines of code for this repository. " +
+        "Because of this, it will not be possible compare the number of lines " +
+        "of code analyzed by code scanning with the total number of lines of " +
+        "code in the repository. This will not affect the results of the code " +
+        "scan. If you have any questions, you can raise an issue at " +
+        "https://github.com/github/codeql-action/issues. Please include a link " +
+        "to the repository if public, otherwise information code scanning " +
+        "workflow you are using."
+    );
   }
 
   return lineCounts;