diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ffb71e3..c3ca36c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [root]
 name = "rsmodules"
-version = "0.5.8"
+version = "0.5.9"
 dependencies = [
  "bincode 0.6.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "getopts 0.2.14 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3edec35..3c1fef2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rsmodules"
-version = "0.5.9"
+version = "0.5.8"
 authors = ["Frederik Delaere <frederik.delaere@ugent.be>"]
 
 [dependencies]
diff --git a/src/script.rs b/src/script.rs
index 491689c..c860683 100644
--- a/src/script.rs
+++ b/src/script.rs
@@ -501,7 +501,10 @@ pub fn get_description() -> Vec<String> {
     // there can be multiple description calls, but
     // only store the first line of the description in
     // the cache file
-    output.push(INFO_GENERAL.lock().unwrap().get(0).unwrap().to_string());
+    let desc: Vec<String> = INFO_GENERAL.lock().unwrap().to_vec();
+    if !desc.is_empty() {
+        output.push(INFO_GENERAL.lock().unwrap().get(0).unwrap().to_string());
+    }
 
     output
 }