diff --git a/bin/mkrelease b/bin/mkrelease
index c3803d710..b690a1591 100755
--- a/bin/mkrelease
+++ b/bin/mkrelease
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ fi
 
 note "Collecting static files ..."
 $do ietf/manage.py collectstatic --noinput --ignore=bower.json --ignore='README.*' --ignore=rev | grep -v "Found another file with the destination path"
-$do svn commit static/lib/ -m "Updated static files under static/lib/"
+#$do svn commit static/lib/ -m "Updated static files under static/lib/"
 
 # note "Checking that there's a recent test-crawler log"
 # touch -d $RDATE .svn/.latest-commit