diff --git a/src/tools/perlcheck/find_perl_files b/src/tools/perlcheck/find_perl_files
index e10466a3905..d7da9fe8592 100644
--- a/src/tools/perlcheck/find_perl_files
+++ b/src/tools/perlcheck/find_perl_files
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ find_perl_files () {
 		find . -type f -perm -100 -exec file {} \; -print |
 		egrep -i ':.*perl[0-9]*\>' |
 		cut -d: -f1
-	} | sort -u
+	} | sort -u | grep -v '^\./\.git/' 
 }