diff --git a/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-9999.ebuild b/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-9999.ebuild
index 541b4f47b676a..1ca71c2efdd07 100644
--- a/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-9999.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ PYTHON_REQ_USE="xml(+)"
 inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
 
 EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/gentoolkit.git"
-EGIT_BRANCH="gentoolkit"
 
 DESCRIPTION="Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/tools/index.xml"