Yeah, my bad. I was confused. Sorry for the noise. On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/03/2017 10:36 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >> Note that git version 1.8.3.1 is quiet and does not print the >> "tracking remote" message. > > So what you are saying is, that git v1.8.3.1 *is* quiet, but v1.7.1 is > not? Sounds like a fixed bug to me. > > I also checked with the latest version and it did not print anything > when used with -q. > > > You seem to urgently need quiet branch creation. Have you thought about > dumping unwanted output in the shell? E.g. in bash > > $ git whatever >&/dev/null