diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 12634c2d0b0..0dfeec759b7 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ linkcheck_ignore = [
     r'https://www.intel.com/.*',  # intel.com is blocking the linkcheck user-agent; maybe it can be customized to look like a browser?
     r'https://sourceforge.net/.*',  # blocking the linkcheck user-agent
     r'https://stackoverflow.com/.*',  # blocking the linkcheck user-agent
-    r'https://cgit.freedesktop.org/.*',  # cgit is no more
 ]
 linkcheck_exclude_documents = [r'relnotes/.*']