git fetch --quiet inconsistently reports to STDERR

Hello,

I'm using git 2.0.4 and 1.7.10.4 and have discovered an issue with quiet option on fetch.

Scenario:

I am fetching from one bare repo into another bare repo and fetching from branch A to branch B. In the case that the branches have deviated from one another, --quiet surpresses all output, incl. output to STDERR.

     $ pwd
     /home/ryan_p/gitrepos/git01.git

     $ git fetch --quiet ../git02.git working_branch:master

     $ echo $?
     1

     $ git fetch ../git02.git working_branch:master
     Von ../git02
      ! [zurückgewiesen]  working_branch -> master  (kein Vorspulen)

However, if I pass a false remote name to "git fetch --quiet" I get the following:

     $ git fetch --quiet ../git02false.git working_branch:master
     fatal: '../git02false.git' does not appear to be a git repository
     fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

     Please make sure you have the correct access rights
     and the repository exists.

So, I see inconsistent behaviour here.

Further, the "git push" behaviour with the "--quiet" option corresponds to what the user actually expects:

     "-q, --quiet
            Suppress all output, including the listing of updated refs, 
unless an error occurs. Progress is not reported to the standard error 
stream."

I perceive the --quiet option on git fetch as behaving incorrectly and would like to file this as a bug.

Best Rgs,

Phil.