diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools.inc
index 4e4f7fa092..738d843591 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools.inc
@@ -27,21 +27,6 @@ SED_CONFIG_EFI:aarch64 = ''
 SED_CONFIG_EFI:loongarch64 = ''
 
 do_compile () {
-	# Yes, this is crazy. If you build on a system with git < 2.14 from scratch, the tree will
-	# be marked as "dirty" and the version will include "-dirty", leading to a reproducibility problem.
-	# The issue is the inode count for Licnses/README changing due to do_populate_lic hardlinking a
-	# copy of the file. We avoid this by ensuring the index is updated with a "git diff" before the
-	# u-boot machinery tries to determine the version.
-	#
-	# build$ ../git/scripts/setlocalversion ../git
-	# ""
-	# build$ ln ../git/
-	# build$ ln ../git/README ../foo
-	# build$ ../git/scripts/setlocalversion ../git
-	# ""-dirty
-	# (i.e. creating a hardlink dirties the index)
-	cd ${S}; git diff; cd ${B}
-
 	oe_runmake -C ${S} tools-only_defconfig O=${B}
 
 	# Disable CONFIG_CMD_LICENSE, license.h is not used by tools and