diff --git a/git-cvs2git.sh b/git-cvs2git.sh
index e9d5b36..cee3c92 100755
--- a/git-cvs2git.sh
+++ b/git-cvs2git.sh
@@ -77,10 +77,12 @@ if [ $NOISY ] ; then echo "git-cvs2git.sh $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6" ; fi
 if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "************found ini file: $inifilename" ; fi
 # Make this null if you want lots of output. Still quite a bit anyway
 QUIET="-q"
-SILENT="-s"
+SILENT4CURL="-s" 
+SILENT4MAKE="-s"
 if [ $DEBUG ] ; then 
 	QUIET=
-	SILENT="-v"
+	SILENT4CURL="-v"
+	SILENT4MAKE=
 fi
 # Make this null to get curl to check ssl cert
 checkSSL="-k"
@@ -239,7 +241,7 @@ fi
 REPO_NAME=$1
 if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "check that $GITEAHOST/$ORGGITEA/$REPO_NAME exists" ; fi
 READMECONTENTS=
-RESPONSE=$(curl $checkSSL $SILENT -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$REPO_NAME")
+RESPONSE=$(curl $checkSSL $SILENT4CURL -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$REPO_NAME")
 if [ "$RESPONSE" == "200" ]; then
     if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "************Repository for $1 already exists!" ; fi
 	# If so, clone it (just want the README.md)
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@ if [ "$RESPONSE" == "200" ]; then
 	fi
 	# Now delete the repo, re-create it and clone it in to local
 	if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "Delete $ORGGITEA/$1" ; fi
-	RESPONSE=$(curl "$checkSSL" "$SILENT" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X 'DELETE' \
+	RESPONSE=$(curl "$checkSSL" "$SILENT4CURL" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X 'DELETE' \
 		"$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$1" \
 		-H 'accept: application/json' \
 		-H "Authorization: token $GITEAACCESSTOKEN")
@@ -279,7 +281,7 @@ cd $GITFiles
 # Re-create the repo
 #
 if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "************Creating repo for $1 $PACKAGETYPE" ; fi
-RESPONSE=$(curl "$checkSSL" "$SILENT" -X 'POST' \
+RESPONSE=$(curl "$checkSSL" "$SILENT4CURL" -X 'POST' \
 	"$GITEAHOST/api/v1/orgs/$ORGGITEA/repos"   \
 	-H 'accept: application/json'   \
 	-H "Authorization: token $GITEAACCESSTOKEN" \
@@ -310,7 +312,7 @@ if [[ -z "${HTTP_URL}"  ]]; then
 fi 
 
 # And check it now exists
-RESPONSE=$(curl "$SILENT" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$1")
+RESPONSE=$(curl "$SILENT4CURL" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$1")
 if [[ "$RESPONSE" == "200" ]]; then
     if [ $DEBUG ] ; then echo "************Repository for $1 exists" ; fi
 else
@@ -333,7 +335,7 @@ cd $CVSFiles/$1/$BASEORCONTRIB
 # Fully populate the directory (gets the tar file - which is not strictly in CVS) and creates the directory source tree
 # applying the patches to the base in the tar file.
 # Might need to replace this by the code from the makefile if we decide to move "make prep" to git moe likely we'll implement a new one "make gitprep".
-make prep
+make $SILENT4MAKE prep
 #echo `pwd`; exit 0
 
 # Extract the directory name for the file tree (it will include the name of the module plus some version information)
@@ -660,7 +662,7 @@ if [[ "$NAME" =~ ^(smeserver-|e-smith-).* ]]; then
 		model="text-davinci-003"
 		temperature=0.8
 		# Send the request to the API
-		response=$(curl "$SILENT" -X POST https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/$model/completions \
+		response=$(curl "$SILENT4CURL" -X POST https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/$model/completions \
 			 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 			 -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
 			 -d '{"prompt": "'"$prompt"'", "temperature": 0.8, "max_tokens": 256}')
@@ -684,7 +686,7 @@ else
 		model="text-davinci-003"
 		temperature=0.8
 		# Send the request to the API
-		response=$(curl "$SILENT" -X POST https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/$model/completions \
+		response=$(curl "$SILENT4CURL" -X POST https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/$model/completions \
 			 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 			 -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
 			 -d '{"prompt": "'"$prompt"'", "temperature": 0.8, "max_tokens": 256}')
@@ -709,7 +711,7 @@ if [[ -z $WIKILINK ]] ; then
 fi
 
 # and then update the repo parameters
-RESPONSE=$(curl "$SILENT" -X 'PATCH'   "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$REPO_NAME"   \
+RESPONSE=$(curl "$SILENT4CURL" -X 'PATCH'   "$GITEAHOST/api/v1/repos/$ORGGITEA/$REPO_NAME"   \
 	-H 'accept: application/json'   \
 	-H "Authorization: token $GITEAACCESSTOKEN" \
 	-H 'Content-Type: application/json'   \