diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5cd812ac..105eb03f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache git python3 python3-dev py-pip build-base
 
 # build wheels in first image
 ADD . /tmp/src
-# restore the hooks directory so that the repository isn't marked as dirty
-RUN cd /tmp/src && git clean -xfd && git checkout -- hooks && git status
+RUN cd /tmp/src && git clean -xfd && git status
 RUN mkdir /tmp/wheelhouse \
  && cd /tmp/wheelhouse \
  && pip3 install wheel \
diff --git a/hooks/README.md b/hooks/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ff34e00..00000000
--- a/hooks/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Docker build hooks
-
-These define our [custom hooks for docker automated builds](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/advanced/#custom-build-phase-hooks)
diff --git a/hooks/post_push b/hooks/post_push
deleted file mode 100644
index d03f1c6b..00000000
--- a/hooks/post_push
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# when building jupyter/repo2docker:main
-# also push jupyter/repo2docker:1.2.3-3.abcd1234 (replace + with -)
-version=$(docker run $DOCKER_REPO:$DOCKER_TAG jupyter-repo2docker --version | sed s@+@-@)
-VERSION_IMAGE="$DOCKER_REPO:$version"
-docker tag $DOCKER_REPO:$DOCKER_TAG "$VERSION_IMAGE"
-docker push "$VERSION_IMAGE"