Redirect messages to stderr & support disabling

[Shushe] / README.markdown

diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
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@@ -303,6 +303,15 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
   The current version of the source files (default: derived from the
     current git tag/branch/commit).
 
+- **`QUIET`:**
+  If this variable has a value, informative messages will not be
+    printed (default: empty).
+  Informative messages print to stderr, not stdout, so disabling them
+    usually shouldn’t be necessary.
+  This does not (cannot) disable messages from Make itself, for which
+    the `-s`, `--silent` ∕ `--quiet` Make option is more likely to be
+    useful.
+
 - **`VERBOSE`:**
   If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be
     printed when it runs (default: empty).