--- a/t/t2082-parallel-checkout-attributes.sh	2021-11-24 19:29:21.000000000 +0000
+++ b/t/t2082-parallel-checkout-attributes.sh	2022-01-12 17:29:58.890000000 +0000
@@ -33,33 +33,6 @@
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'parallel-checkout with re-encoding' '
-	set_checkout_config 2 0 &&
-	git init encoding &&
-	(
-		cd encoding &&
-		echo text >utf8-text &&
-		write_utf16 <utf8-text >utf16-text &&
-
-		echo "A working-tree-encoding=UTF-16" >.gitattributes &&
-		cp utf16-text A &&
-		cp utf8-text B &&
-		git add A B .gitattributes &&
-		git commit -m encoding &&
-
-		# Check that A is stored in UTF-8
-		git cat-file -p :A >A.internal &&
-		test_cmp_bin utf8-text A.internal &&
-
-		rm A B &&
-		test_checkout_workers 2 git checkout A B &&
-
-		# Check that A (and only A) is re-encoded during checkout
-		test_cmp_bin utf16-text A &&
-		test_cmp_bin utf8-text B
-	)
-'
-
 test_expect_success 'parallel-checkout with eol conversions' '
 	set_checkout_config 2 0 &&
 	git init eol &&