--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 const semver = require("semver");
 const engines = require("./package.json").engines;
-const fs = require("node:fs");
-const os = require("node:os");
 const path = require("node:path");
-const {exec} = require("node:child_process");
 require("source-map-support").install();
 
 let controller;
@@ -23,8 +20,6 @@
     }
 }
 
-const hashFile = path.join(__dirname, "dist", ".hash");
-
 async function triggerWatchdog(code) {
     const delay = watchdogDelays[watchdogCount];
     watchdogCount += 1;
@@ -56,73 +51,8 @@
     }
 }
 
-async function currentHash() {
-    return await new Promise((resolve) => {
-        exec("git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD", (error, stdout) => {
-            const commitHash = stdout.trim();
-
-            if (error || commitHash === "") {
-                resolve("unknown");
-            } else {
-                resolve(commitHash);
-            }
-        });
-    });
-}
-
-async function writeHash() {
-    const hash = await currentHash();
-
-    fs.writeFileSync(hashFile, hash);
-}
-
-async function build(reason) {
-    process.stdout.write(`Building Zigbee2MQTT... (${reason})`);
-
-    return await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-        const env = {...process.env};
-        const mb600 = 629145600;
-
-        if (mb600 > os.totalmem() && !env.NODE_OPTIONS) {
-            // Prevent OOM on tsc compile for system with low memory
-            // https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/12034
-            env.NODE_OPTIONS = "--max_old_space_size=256";
-        }
-
-        // clean build, prevent failures due to tsc incremental building
-        exec("pnpm run prepack", {env, cwd: __dirname}, (err) => {
-            if (err) {
-                process.stdout.write(", failed\n");
-
-                if (err.code === 134) {
-                    process.stderr.write("\n\nBuild failed; ran out-of-memory, free some memory (RAM) and start again\n\n");
-                }
-
-                reject(err);
-            } else {
-                process.stdout.write(", finished\n");
-                resolve();
-            }
-        });
-    });
-}
-
-async function checkDist() {
-    if (!fs.existsSync(hashFile)) {
-        await build("initial build");
-    }
-
-    const distHash = fs.readFileSync(hashFile, "utf8");
-    const hash = await currentHash();
-
-    if (hash !== "unknown" && distHash !== hash) {
-        await build("hash changed");
-    }
-}
-
 async function start() {
     console.log(`Starting Zigbee2MQTT ${watchdog ? `with watchdog (${watchdogDelays})` : "without watchdog"}.`);
-    await checkDist();
 
     // gc
     {
@@ -174,7 +104,8 @@
 
 if (require.main === module || require.main.filename.endsWith(`${path.sep}cli.js`)) {
     if (process.argv.length === 3 && process.argv[2] === "writehash") {
-        writeHash();
+        console.log("writehash is ignored");
+        process.exit(0);
     } else {
         process.on("SIGINT", handleQuit);
         process.on("SIGTERM", handleQuit);
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@
     ],
     "scripts": {
-        "build": "tsc && node index.js writehash",
+        "build": "tsc",
         "build:watch": "tsc --watch",
         "check": "biome check",