First of all, I apologize in advance for cc'ing the busy git mailing list with problems about stgit. The stgit web page at http://www.procode.org/stgit/ says "Please report bugs to Catalin Marinas and copy the GIT mailing list." I would feel less guilty about whose time I was spending on reports like this if there were a separate stgit-users list. Anyhow, here is my bug reporting, which likely is some mistake on my part. I have a git tree with snapshots of linux kernel tar files, no branches and no local modifications. By the way, this tree is not a pull from the kernel.org git repository (although it will likely be replaced with one in the future). Rather, this git tree one of a collection git trees that correspond to tar files released on various ftp and web repositories (i.e., there is one for gcc, one for binutils, etc.). I also have an stgit tree of the kernel. This one has the local modifications in stgit. I just upgraded from stgit 0.11 to 0.12, upgraded the git kernel tree from 2.6.20 to 2.6.20-git7, and tried to pull from the updated git tree to the stgit tree, using the new stgit 0.12. stgit refused to apply the first local patch, complaining "stg pull: unknown user details." I did the "stg pull" as root, did not set any of the GIT_AUTHOR_* environment variables and did not create any kind of git or stg configuration file. No doubt I could work around this by setting up some kind of configuration file, but I should not be required to do so, especially just to do a "pull". I don't mind that a version control system might log user ID and email addresses somewhere, but it should still work if I do not wish to provide that information. Adam Richter - 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