diff --git a/packaging/makeself/build.sh b/packaging/makeself/build.sh
index 389e04581b..dca635f0a3 100755
--- a/packaging/makeself/build.sh
+++ b/packaging/makeself/build.sh
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ chown -R root:root /usr/src/netdata
 
 cd /usr/src/netdata/packaging/makeself || exit 1
 
-git clean -dxf
-git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -dxf
-
 cat >&2 << EOF
 This program will create a self-extracting shell package containing
 a statically linked netdata, able to run on any 64bit Linux system,