Re: [PATCH 2/2] fetch: silence git-gc if --quiet is given

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

I think this is a fine fix for this specific problem, and we should
apply it. But I do wonder if it would be simpler in the long run to
treat verbosity as a global option, and pass it around via a GIT_QUIET
(or GIT_VERBOSITY) environment variable.

I would not be surprised at all to find that there are other cases where
sub-programs do not respect the parent verbosity (I know we have had
problems with progress reporting flags carried over the transport
interface in the past, but I think we fixed all of those).

I don't see any easy way to make everybody aware of $GIT_QUIET. But
the idea is nice.
-- 
Duy