diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 2f439f9658..979b2d4833 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -196,11 +196,6 @@ appropriately before running "make". Short options can be bundled, i.e.
 	this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment
 	variable to "1" or "0", respectively.
 
-	A few test scripts disable some of the more advanced
-	chain-linting detection in the name of efficiency. You can
-	override this by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER
-	environment variable to "1".
-
 --stress::
 	Run the test script repeatedly in multiple parallel jobs until
 	one of them fails.  Useful for reproducing rare failures in
diff --git a/t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh b/t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh
index a22e0e1382..a94ac1eae3 100755
--- a/t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh
+++ b/t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh
@@ -387,9 +387,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup main' '
 	test_tick
 '
 
-# Disable extra chain-linting for the next set of tests. There are many
-# auto-generated ones that are not worth checking over and over.
-GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER_DEFAULT=0
+
 
 warn_LF_CRLF="LF will be replaced by CRLF"
 warn_CRLF_LF="CRLF will be replaced by LF"
@@ -606,9 +604,6 @@ do
 	checkout_files     ""    "$id" "crlf" true    ""       CRLF  CRLF  CRLF         CRLF_mix_CR  CRLF_nul
 done
 
-# The rest of the tests are unique; do the usual linting.
-unset GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER_DEFAULT
-
 # Should be the last test case: remove some files from the worktree
 test_expect_success 'ls-files --eol -d -z' '
 	rm crlf_false_attr__CRLF.txt crlf_false_attr__CRLF_mix_LF.txt crlf_false_attr__LF.txt .gitattributes &&
diff --git a/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh b/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh
index f9539968e4..5d871fde96 100755
--- a/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh
+++ b/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@ test_description='wildmatch tests'
 TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-# Disable expensive chain-lint tests; all of the tests in this script
-# are variants of a few trivial test-tool invocations, and there are a lot of
-# them.
-GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER_DEFAULT=0
-
 should_create_test_file() {
 	file=$1
 
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 377cc1c120..dc0d059109 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -1091,11 +1091,8 @@ test_run_ () {
 		trace=
 		# 117 is magic because it is unlikely to match the exit
 		# code of other programs
-		if test "OK-117" != "$(test_eval_ "(exit 117) && $1${LF}${LF}echo OK-\$?" 3>&1)" ||
-		   {
-			test "${GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER:-${GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER_DEFAULT:-1}}" != 0 &&
-			$(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/chainlint.sed" | grep -q '?![A-Z][A-Z]*?!')
-		   }
+		if $(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/chainlint.sed" | grep -q '?![A-Z][A-Z]*?!') ||
+			test "OK-117" != "$(test_eval_ "(exit 117) && $1${LF}${LF}echo OK-\$?" 3>&1)"
 		then
 			BUG "broken &&-chain or run-away HERE-DOC: $1"
 		fi