diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn b/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
index 6219454817598854768490ebf3b6b4aeb5d94c5e..532f828e97a17131e355c473851fd41425bc7dca 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ for BRANCH in $BRANCHES; do
   # in changes.
   if test "$BRANCH" = HEAD; then 
     for i in $FILES; do
-      ${SVN} co -N ${SVNROOT}/trunk/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
+      ${SVN} -q co -N ${SVNROOT}/trunk/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
     done
   else
     for i in $FILES; do
-      ${SVN} co -N ${SVNROOT}/branches/${BRANCH}/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
+      ${SVN} -q co -N ${SVNROOT}/branches/${BRANCH}/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
     done
   fi