nimble run fails inside git repo with no commits

[iacore]

How to reproduce

1. Create a directory
2. Run git init
3. Run nimble init -y (with fix from Fix create directory behavior #983)
4. Run nimble run

    Error:  Execution of 'git -C /tmp/db rev-parse HEAD' failed with an exit code 128.
        ... Details: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
        ... Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
        ... 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
        ... HEAD

Why does nimble need to use git anyway?