diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 36775c57a56..e69de29bb2d 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "java-repo-tools"]
-	path = java-repo-tools
-	url = https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-repo-tools.git
diff --git a/java-repo-tools b/java-repo-tools
deleted file mode 160000
index 74755a28f01..00000000000
--- a/java-repo-tools
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 74755a28f01aedf57992f473eb2d0201b1e04f2a
diff --git a/travis.sh b/travis.sh
index 3b36d3326bc..3ed3ca81188 100755
--- a/travis.sh
+++ b/travis.sh
@@ -74,10 +74,7 @@ shellcheck ./**/*.sh
 
 # Run tests using App Engine local devserver.
 test_localhost() {
-  # The testing scripts are stored in a submodule. This allows us to carefully
-  # update the testing scripts, since submodules are tied to a specific commit.
-  git submodule init
-  git submodule update
+  git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-repo-tools.git
 
   devserver_tests=(
       appengine/helloworld