diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cb8aec3..5157cbd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # you need to drop setup_requires from setup.py as well.
 # https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/#rationale
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=42",'setuptools_git>=1.0']
+requires = ["setuptools>=42"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"