diff --git a/devices/common/lofar_logging.py b/devices/common/lofar_logging.py
index e571ebb1f92c87f7963a2c8c8f623ed79346f068..4114d5dd342c4562313a1dd609db3522f0b5fe63 100644
--- a/devices/common/lofar_logging.py
+++ b/devices/common/lofar_logging.py
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ def configure_logger(logger: logging.Logger=None, log_extra=None, debug=False):
     # remove spam from the OPC-UA client connection
     logging.getLogger("opcua").setLevel(logging.WARN)
 
+    # don't spam errors for git, as we use it in our log handler, which would result in an infinite loop
+    logging.getLogger("git").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
+
     # for now, also log to stderr
     # Set up logging in a way that it can be understood by a human reader, be
     # easily grep'ed, be parsed with a couple of shell commands and