diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
index 54eaeb9df..759613ba2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/WorkingTreeIterator.java
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ public abstract class WorkingTreeIterator extends AbstractTreeIterator {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private InputStream filterClean(InputStream in) throws IOException {
+	private InputStream filterClean(InputStream in) {
 		return new EolCanonicalizingInputStream(in, true);
 	}