diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileContextBuilder.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileContextBuilder.java
index 0394f12144e..f2131951000 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileContextBuilder.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileContextBuilder.java
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ public class HFileContextBuilder {
     this.columnFamily = hfc.getColumnFamily();
     this.tableName = hfc.getTableName();
     this.cellComparator = hfc.getCellComparator();
-    this.indexBlockEncoding = hfc.getIndexBlockEncoding();
   }
 
   public HFileContextBuilder withHBaseCheckSum(boolean useHBaseCheckSum) {
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/TestHFile.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/TestHFile.java
index 0d5190d16b3..bf152b47e2a 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/TestHFile.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/TestHFile.java
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ByteBuffAllocator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.compress.Compression;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.DataBlockEncoder;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.DataBlockEncoding;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.IndexBlockEncoding;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFile.Reader;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFile.Writer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.ReaderContext.ReaderType;
@@ -1071,11 +1070,4 @@ public class TestHFile {
     alloc.clean();
   }
 
-  @Test
-  public void testHFileContextBuilderWithIndexEncoding() throws IOException {
-    HFileContext context =
-      new HFileContextBuilder().withIndexBlockEncoding(IndexBlockEncoding.PREFIX_TREE).build();
-    HFileContext newContext = new HFileContextBuilder(context).build();
-    assertTrue(newContext.getIndexBlockEncoding() == IndexBlockEncoding.PREFIX_TREE);
-  }
 }