diff --git a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/repository/VcsAccessLogRepository.java b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/repository/VcsAccessLogRepository.java
index 628019f34eaa..76722cfd5eea 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/repository/VcsAccessLogRepository.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/tum/cit/aet/artemis/programming/repository/VcsAccessLogRepository.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public interface VcsAccessLogRepository extends ArtemisJpaRepository<VcsAccessLo
                 WHERE vcsAccessLog.participation.id = :participationId
                 ORDER BY vcsAccessLog.timestamp DESC
                 LIMIT 1
-                """)
+            """)
     Optional<VcsAccessLog> findNewestByParticipationId(@Param("participationId") long participationId);
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/changelog/20241112123600_changelog.xml b/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/changelog/20241112123600_changelog.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c49a4b3c480a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/changelog/20241112123600_changelog.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
+                   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+                   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog https://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd">
+    <changeSet id="20241112123600" author="krusche">
+        <preConditions onFail="MARK_RAN">
+            <!-- Check if the index does not exist before adding it -->
+            <not>
+                <indexExists indexName="vcs_access_log_participation_id" tableName="vcs_access_log"/>
+            </not>
+        </preConditions>
+
+        <createIndex indexName="vcs_access_log_participation_id" tableName="vcs_access_log" unique="false">
+            <column name="participation_id"/>
+        </createIndex>
+    </changeSet>
+</databaseChangeLog>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/master.xml b/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/master.xml
index 077b50e53e89..6a06b398b783 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/master.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/config/liquibase/master.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     <include file="classpath:config/liquibase/changelog/20241010101010_changelog.xml" relativeToChangelogFile="false"/>
     <include file="classpath:config/liquibase/changelog/20241018053210_changelog.xml" relativeToChangelogFile="false"/>
     <include file="classpath:config/liquibase/changelog/20241023456789_changelog.xml" relativeToChangelogFile="false"/>
+    <include file="classpath:config/liquibase/changelog/20241112123600_changelog.xml" relativeToChangelogFile="false"/>
 
     <!-- NOTE: please use the format "YYYYMMDDhhmmss_changelog.xml", i.e. year month day hour minutes seconds and not something else! -->
     <!-- we should also stay in a chronological order! -->