On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:51:28PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > I investigated an old issue that Miika asked me to look into: > > mkomu@bling:~/projects/hipl-bzr/trunk$ make version.h > echo "$(bzr version-info . --custom --template="#define BZR_REVISION > \"{revno}\"\n\n#define BZR_BRANCH \"{branch_nick}\"")" > version.h > ssh: Could not resolve hostname hipl.hiit.fi: Name or service not known > > It appears that 'bzr version-info' accesses the repository over the > network even though it should not be necessary to get the information. > Nonetheless the above command succeeds and version.h is created fine. I found the reason behind this error message: It only appears if you work on a checkout and not a full branch. So use branches if you wish to work without network, it's the sensible thing to do anyway :) Diego