diff --git a/kdesrc-build b/kdesrc-build
index d15121f..7be6cb7 100755
--- a/kdesrc-build
+++ b/kdesrc-build
@@ -1778,11 +1778,14 @@ sub git_clone_module
     my $module = shift;
     my $git_repo = shift;
     my $srcdir = get_fullpath($module, 'source');
+    my @args = ('--', $git_repo, $srcdir);
 
-    # The -v forces progress output from git, which seems to work around either a git or
-    # gitorious.org bug causing timeout errors after cloning large repositories (such as
-    # qt-copy...)
-    my $result = log_command($module, 'git-clone', ['git', 'clone', '-v', '--', $git_repo, $srcdir]);
+    # The -v forces progress output from git, which seems to work around either
+    # a gitorious.org bug causing timeout errors after cloning large
+    # repositories (such as qt-copy...)
+    unshift (@args, '-v') if $module eq 'qt-copy';
+
+    my $result = log_command($module, 'git-clone', ['git', 'clone', @args]);
     if ($result == 0) {
         set_persistent_option($module, 'git-cloned-repository', $git_repo);
     }
@@ -2374,7 +2377,7 @@ sub log_command
         # don't redirect stderr in that case.
         # In the case of git, we forced on progress output so let's leave that
         # interactive to keep the logs sane.
-        open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT") unless $command[0] eq 'svn' || $command[0] eq 'git';
+        open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT") unless $command[0] eq 'svn';
 
         # Call internal function, name given by $command[1]
         if($command[0] eq 'kdesrc-build')
@@ -5573,8 +5576,8 @@ sub prepend_environment_path
     # Filter out entries to add that are already in the environment from the
     # system.
     for my $path (grep { list_has(@curPaths, $_) } (@_) ) {
-        whisper "\tNot prepending y[$path] to y[$envName] as it appears " .
-                "to already be defined in y[$envName].";
+        debug "\tNot prepending y[$path] to y[$envName] as it appears " .
+              "to already be defined in y[$envName].";
     }
 
     @_ = grep { not list_has(@curPaths, $_); } (@_);