> This is not the problem this patch introduces, but the way GIT_QUIET > variable is set up does not allow us to do the above so nicely, I > suspect. Wouldn't the above change make "git submodule update -v" > invoke the underlying commands with "--quiet" option? Interesting. I didn't check every setting of GIT_QUIET, just looked at the first few and assumed the rest would be the same. The "git submodule--helper update-clone" invocation also has this problem. I'll resend with "unset GIT_QUIET".