Hi Catalin, Here is an error I just got when refreshing. The refresh did occur, but the error is annoying and may hide something: dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ ./stg ref contrib/stg-whatchanged Checking for changes in the working directory... done Refreshing patch "whatchanged"...stg ref: unknown user details dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ echo $? 2 When using "refresh -p", we can see the error occurs before rewinding to current patch: dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ ./stg ref -p show-old Checking for changes in the working directory... done Popping patch "whatchanged"... done Refreshing patch "show-old"...stg ref: unknown user details dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ stg top show-old - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html