diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
index 91e8027b86..46f7f7c573 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,6 @@ tip with the previous tip.
 Finally, if `--expire-time=<datetime>` is not specified, let `datetime`
 be the current time. After writing the split commit-graph, delete all
 unused commit-graph whose modified times are older than `datetime`.
-+
-The `--[no-]check-oids` option decides whether or not OIDs are required
-to be commits. By default, `--check-oids` is implied, generating an
-error on non-commit objects. If `--no-check-oids` is given, non-commits
-are silently discarded.
 
 'verify'::
 
diff --git a/builtin/commit-graph.c b/builtin/commit-graph.c
index 2857153008..075f8f6928 100644
--- a/builtin/commit-graph.c
+++ b/builtin/commit-graph.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ static char const * const builtin_commit_graph_usage[] = {
 	N_("git commit-graph verify [--object-dir <objdir>] [--shallow] [--[no-]progress]"),
 	N_("git commit-graph write [--object-dir <objdir>] [--append] "
 	   "[--split[=<strategy>]] [--reachable|--stdin-packs|--stdin-commits] "
-	   "[--[no-]progress] [--[no-]check-oids] <split options>"),
+	   "[--[no-]progress] <split options>"),
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_commit_graph_verify_usage[] = {
 static const char * const builtin_commit_graph_write_usage[] = {
 	N_("git commit-graph write [--object-dir <objdir>] [--append] "
 	   "[--split[=<strategy>]] [--reachable|--stdin-packs|--stdin-commits] "
-	   "[--[no-]progress] [--[no-]check-oids] <split options>"),
+	   "[--[no-]progress] <split options>"),
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static struct opts_commit_graph {
 	int split;
 	int shallow;
 	int progress;
-	int check_oids;
 } opts;
 
 static struct object_directory *find_odb(struct repository *r,
@@ -161,8 +160,6 @@ static int graph_write(int argc, const char **argv)
 			N_("allow writing an incremental commit-graph file"),
 			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
 			write_option_parse_split),
-		OPT_BOOL(0, "check-oids", &opts.check_oids,
-			N_("require OIDs to be commits")),
 		OPT_INTEGER(0, "max-commits", &split_opts.max_commits,
 			N_("maximum number of commits in a non-base split commit-graph")),
 		OPT_INTEGER(0, "size-multiple", &split_opts.size_multiple,
@@ -173,7 +170,6 @@ static int graph_write(int argc, const char **argv)
 	};
 
 	opts.progress = isatty(2);
-	opts.check_oids = 1;
 	split_opts.size_multiple = 2;
 	split_opts.max_commits = 0;
 	split_opts.expire_time = 0;
@@ -228,8 +224,7 @@ static int graph_write(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 				oidset_insert(&commits, &oid);
 			}
-			if (opts.check_oids)
-				flags |= COMMIT_GRAPH_WRITE_CHECK_OIDS;
+			flags |= COMMIT_GRAPH_WRITE_CHECK_OIDS;
 		}
 
 		UNLEAK(buf);
diff --git a/commit-graph.c b/commit-graph.c
index af677fc98e..bf86e4a92b 100644
--- a/commit-graph.c
+++ b/commit-graph.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static int verify_commit_graph_lite(struct commit_graph *g)
 	 *
 	 * There should only be very basic checks here to ensure that
 	 * we don't e.g. segfault in fill_commit_in_graph(), but
-	 e because this is a very hot codepath nothing that e.g. loops
+	 * because this is a very hot codepath nothing that e.g. loops
 	 * over g->num_commits, or runs a checksum on the commit-graph
 	 * itself.
 	 */
diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
index 23c7b7e036..69599cea7f 100755
--- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
@@ -49,34 +49,6 @@ test_expect_success 'exit with correct error on bad input to --stdin-commits' '
 	test_i18ngrep "invalid commit object id" stderr
 '
 
-graph_expect_commits() {
-	test-tool read-graph >got
-	if ! grep "num_commits: $1" got
-	then
-		echo "graph_expect_commits: expected $1 commit(s), got:"
-		cat got
-		false
-	fi
-}
-
-test_expect_success 'ignores non-commit OIDs to --input=stdin-commits with --no-check-oids' '
-	test_when_finished rm -rf "$objdir/info/commit-graph" &&
-	cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/full" &&
-	# write a graph to ensure layers are/are not added appropriately
-	git rev-parse HEAD~1 >base &&
-	git commit-graph write --stdin-commits <base &&
-	graph_expect_commits 2 &&
-	# bad input is rejected
-	echo HEAD >bad &&
-	test_expect_code 1 git commit-graph write --stdin-commits <bad 2>err &&
-	test_i18ngrep "unexpected non-hex object ID: HEAD" err &&
-	graph_expect_commits 2 &&
-	# update with valid commit OID, ignore tree OID
-	git rev-parse HEAD HEAD^{tree} >in &&
-	git commit-graph write --stdin-commits --no-check-oids <in &&
-	graph_expect_commits 3
-'
-
 graph_git_two_modes() {
 	git -c core.commitGraph=true $1 >output
 	git -c core.commitGraph=false $1 >expect