git-clone --quiet broken?

The server I run various git snapshots on recently got upgraded to git 1.5.6,
and I started getting a lot more mail from cron than usual.
It seems that passing -q to git-clone at some point changed from 'silent'
to 'slightly less noisy'. Only the difference is so slight that it may
as well be nil..

Here's a normal clone..

Initialize git/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davej/git-trees/git/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 76925, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25373/25373), done.
remote: Total 76925 (delta 55699), reused 70336 (delta 50160)
Receiving objects: 100% (76925/76925), 17.09 MiB | 1111 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (55699/55699), done.

And here's the 'quiet' clone..

Initialize git/.git
remote: Counting objects: 76925, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25373/25373), done.
remote: Total 76925 (delta 55699), reused 70336 (delta 50160)
Receiving objects: 100% (76925/76925), 17.09 MiB | 1128 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (55699/55699), done.

Spot the difference :)

It looks even worse in mail from cron, where you get one line of text
for every % that git progresses through.

I could run the clone with 2>/dev/null, but I'd really like to get
mail when something breaks instead of it being totally silent.

I'm assuming this was an unintentional side-effect of some other recent change?

	Dave

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