diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh
index f22ef9bb47..a5d2c3eaf9 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh
@@ -250,13 +250,7 @@ EOS
 
   if [[ -z "$HOMEBREW_MERGE" ]]
   then
-    # Work around bug where git rebase --quiet is not quiet
-    if [[ -z "$HOMEBREW_VERBOSE" ]]
-    then
-      git rebase "$REMOTE_REF" >/dev/null
-    else
-      git rebase "${QUIET_ARGS[@]}" "$REMOTE_REF"
-    fi
+    git rebase "${QUIET_ARGS[@]}" "$REMOTE_REF"
   else
     git merge --no-edit --ff "${QUIET_ARGS[@]}" "$REMOTE_REF" \
       --strategy=recursive \