diff --git a/ci/README.md b/ci/README.md
index 65e29ab05..5ef2a2c51 100644
--- a/ci/README.md
+++ b/ci/README.md
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ You can disable minification by setting `MINIFY=`.
   - Will build a standalone release with node and node_modules bundled into `./release-standalone`.
 - [./ci/build/clean.sh](./build/clean.sh) (`yarn clean`)
   - Removes all build artifacts.
-  - Will also `git reset --hard lib/vscode`.
   - Useful to do a clean build.
 - [./ci/build/code-server.sh](./build/code-server.sh)
   - Copied into standalone releases to run code-server with the bundled node binary.
diff --git a/ci/build/clean.sh b/ci/build/clean.sh
index b80632278..a31802155 100755
--- a/ci/build/clean.sh
+++ b/ci/build/clean.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ main() {
 
   pushd lib/vscode
   git clean -xffd
-  git reset --hard
   popd
 }