diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index debc0c0a5..c44cb44c0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ setuptools.setup(
 
     test_suite='nose.collector',
 
-    setup_requires=['setuptools-git>=0.4'],
-
     scripts=['bin/ceilometer-agent-compute',
              'bin/ceilometer-agent-central',
              'bin/ceilometer-api',