diff --git a/src/installer/gitRevParse.ts b/src/installer/gitRevParse.ts
index 26a146c7b..ed2a48f49 100644
--- a/src/installer/gitRevParse.ts
+++ b/src/installer/gitRevParse.ts
@@ -26,14 +26,5 @@ export function gitRevParse(cwd = process.cwd()): GitRevParseResult {
     // Normalize for Windows
     .map(slash)
 
-  // Git rev-parse returns unknown options as is.
-  // If we get --absolute-git-dir in the output,
-  // it probably means that an old version of Git has been used.
-  // There seem to be a bug with --git-common-dir that was fixed in 2.13.0.
-  // See issues above.
-  if (gitCommonDir === '--git-common-dir') {
-    throw new Error('Husky requires Git >= 2.13.0, please upgrade Git')
-  }
-
   return { prefix, gitCommonDir }
 }