diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPackTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPackTest.java
index 6015428d9..65929059a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPackTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPackTest.java
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ public class IndexPackTest extends RepositoryTestCase {
 
 		final byte[] raw = pack.toByteArray();
 		IndexPack ip = IndexPack.create(db, new ByteArrayInputStream(raw));
-		ip.setStreamFileThreshold(1);
 		ip.index(NullProgressMonitor.INSTANCE);
 		ip.renameAndOpenPack();
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPack.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPack.java
index 8feb483fe..bb9edc266 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPack.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/IndexPack.java
@@ -145,8 +145,6 @@ public class IndexPack {
 
 	private final Repository repo;
 
-	private int streamFileThreshold;
-
 	/**
 	 * Object database used for loading existing objects
 	 */
@@ -244,7 +242,6 @@ public class IndexPack {
 	public IndexPack(final Repository db, final InputStream src,
 			final File dstBase) throws IOException {
 		repo = db;
-		streamFileThreshold = 5 * (1 << 20); // A reasonable default for now.
 		objectDatabase = db.getObjectDatabase().newCachedDatabase();
 		in = src;
 		inflater = new InflaterStream();
@@ -268,10 +265,6 @@ public class IndexPack {
 		}
 	}
 
-	void setStreamFileThreshold(int sz) {
-		streamFileThreshold = sz;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Set the pack index file format version this instance will create.
 	 *
@@ -860,7 +853,7 @@ public class IndexPack {
 		objectDigest.update((byte) 0);
 
 		boolean checkContentLater = false;
-		if (type == Constants.OBJ_BLOB && sz >= streamFileThreshold) {
+		if (type == Constants.OBJ_BLOB) {
 			InputStream inf = inflate(Source.INPUT, sz);
 			long cnt = 0;
 			while (cnt < sz) {