diff --git a/.githooks/post-checkout b/.githooks/post-checkout
index fbb9c24..d61859c 100755
--- a/.githooks/post-checkout
+++ b/.githooks/post-checkout
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 repoRoot=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
 listFilesToSubstitute=$(find -name *.gitsubstitute)
-listStaticPathFiles=$(git grep -lr --untracked $repoRoot)
-listStagedFiles=$(git diff --staged --name-only)
 
 staticPathSubstitution="\$\$\${GITSUBSTITUTE_REPO_ROOT}"
 
@@ -14,11 +12,3 @@ for entryFileToSubstitute in $listFilesToSubstitute; do
     fileContent=$(<$fullPath)
     echo "${fileContent//${staticPathSubstitution}/${repoRoot}}" > "${fullPathSubstitute}"
 done
-
-mv hw_platform/platform.tcl TMP1
-mv hw_platform/platform.tcl.gitsubstitute TMP2
-rm -rf hw_platform
-mkdir hw_platform
-mv TMP1 hw_platform/platform.tcl
-mv TMP2 hw_platform/platform.tcl.gitsubstitute
-xsct hw_platform/platform.tcl
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6bcb548..9eda234 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,9 +18,8 @@ vitis_pid*.str
 # ignore all files generated by pre-commit hook
 **/*.gitsubstitute
 
-# ignore all generated platform files but platform setup script
-/hw_platform/*
-!/hw_platform/platform.tcl
+# ignore all generated platform files
+/hw_platform/
 
 # ignore ide scripts
 /*_system/_ide/scripts/*