diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e434f0ce..ffe68354 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 * [CHANGE] Add rexml dependency for Ruby 3.0.0+ support (by [@fbuys][])
 * [BUGFIX] Raise error when the same branches are compared (by [@rishijain][])
 * [BUGFIX] Churn score was always 0 when rubycritic was executed from a sub-directory (by [@rishijain][])
+* [BUGFIX] Use overview.html as the fallback path when files does not exist during compare option (by [@rishijain][])
 
 # v4.8.1 / 2023-05-17 [(commits)](https://github.com/whitesmith/rubycritic/compare/v4.8.0...v4.8.1)
 
diff --git a/lib/rubycritic/generators/html/view_helpers.rb b/lib/rubycritic/generators/html/view_helpers.rb
index afbc48b1..fde78721 100644
--- a/lib/rubycritic/generators/html/view_helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/rubycritic/generators/html/view_helpers.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ def smell_location_path(location)
     end
 
     def code_index_path(root_directory, file_name)
-      file_path("#{File.expand_path(root_directory)}/#{file_name}")
+      root_directory_path = File.expand_path(root_directory)
+      index_path = "#{root_directory_path}/#{file_name}"
+      index_path = "#{root_directory_path}/overview.html" unless File.exist?(index_path)
+      file_path(index_path)
     end
 
     private