diff --git a/.ci/deploy-linux.sh b/.ci/deploy-linux.sh
index 2c8a00aed3..91bcf13010 100755
--- a/.ci/deploy-linux.sh
+++ b/.ci/deploy-linux.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ if [ "$DEPLOY_APPIMAGE" = "true" ]; then
     # Remove libwayland-client because it has platform-dependent exports and breaks other OSes
     rm -f ./AppDir/usr/lib/libwayland-client.so*
 
+    # Remove git directory containing local commit history file
+    rm -rf ./AppDir/usr/share/rpcs3/git
+
     linuxdeploy --appimage-extract
     ./squashfs-root/plugins/linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage/usr/bin/appimagetool AppDir -g