diff --git a/extensions/git/src/main.ts b/extensions/git/src/main.ts
index edc5f6c19cc..f75ed0fef00 100644
--- a/extensions/git/src/main.ts
+++ b/extensions/git/src/main.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import { CommandCenter } from './commands';
 import { StatusBarCommands } from './statusbar';
 import { GitContentProvider } from './contentProvider';
 import { AutoFetcher } from './autofetch';
-import { MergeDecorator } from './merge';
 import { Askpass } from './askpass';
 import { toDisposable } from './util';
 import TelemetryReporter from 'vscode-extension-telemetry';
@@ -58,14 +57,12 @@ async function init(context: ExtensionContext, disposables: Disposable[]): Promi
 	const provider = new GitSCMProvider(model, commandCenter, statusBarCommands);
 	const contentProvider = new GitContentProvider(model);
 	const autoFetcher = new AutoFetcher(model);
-	const mergeDecorator = new MergeDecorator(model);
 
 	disposables.push(
 		commandCenter,
 		provider,
 		contentProvider,
 		autoFetcher,
-		mergeDecorator,
 		model
 	);
 
diff --git a/extensions/git/src/merge.ts b/extensions/git/src/merge.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 457e966d89a..00000000000
--- a/extensions/git/src/merge.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- *  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
- *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-
-'use strict';
-
-import { window, workspace, Disposable, TextEditor, TextDocument, Range } from 'vscode';
-import { Model, Status } from './model';
-import { filterEvent } from './util';
-import { debounce } from './decorators';
-import { iterate } from './iterators';
-
-function* lines(document: TextDocument): IterableIterator<string> {
-	for (let i = 0; i < document.lineCount; i++) {
-		yield document.lineAt(i).text;
-	}
-}
-
-const pattern = /^<<<<<<<|^=======|^>>>>>>>/;
-
-function decorate(document: TextDocument): Range[] {
-	return iterate(lines(document))
-		.map((line, i) => pattern.test(line) ? i : null)
-		.filter(i => i !== null)
-		.map((i: number) => new Range(i, 1, i, 1))
-		.toArray();
-}
-
-class TextEditorMergeDecorator {
-
-	private static DecorationType = window.createTextEditorDecorationType({
-		backgroundColor: 'rgba(255, 139, 0, 0.3)',
-		isWholeLine: true,
-		dark: {
-			backgroundColor: 'rgba(235, 59, 0, 0.3)'
-		}
-	});
-
-	private uri: string;
-	private disposables: Disposable[] = [];
-
-	constructor(
-		private model: Model,
-		private editor: TextEditor
-	) {
-		this.uri = this.editor.document.uri.toString();
-
-		const onDidChange = filterEvent(workspace.onDidChangeTextDocument, e => e.document && e.document.uri.toString() === this.uri);
-		onDidChange(this.redecorate, this, this.disposables);
-		model.onDidChange(this.redecorate, this, this.disposables);
-
-		this.redecorate();
-	}
-
-	@debounce(300)
-	private redecorate(): void {
-		let decorations: Range[] = [];
-
-		if (window.visibleTextEditors.every(e => e !== this.editor)) {
-			this.dispose();
-			return;
-		}
-
-		if (this.model.mergeGroup.resources.some(r => r.type === Status.BOTH_MODIFIED && r.resourceUri.toString() === this.uri)) {
-			decorations = decorate(this.editor.document);
-		}
-
-		this.editor.setDecorations(TextEditorMergeDecorator.DecorationType, decorations);
-	}
-
-	dispose(): void {
-		this.disposables.forEach(d => d.dispose());
-	}
-}
-
-export class MergeDecorator {
-
-	private textEditorDecorators: TextEditorMergeDecorator[] = [];
-	private disposables: Disposable[] = [];
-
-	constructor(private model: Model) {
-		window.onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors(this.onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors, this, this.disposables);
-		this.onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors(window.visibleTextEditors);
-	}
-
-	private onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors(editors: TextEditor[]): void {
-		this.textEditorDecorators.forEach(d => d.dispose());
-		this.textEditorDecorators = editors.map(e => new TextEditorMergeDecorator(this.model, e));
-	}
-
-	dispose(): void {
-		this.textEditorDecorators.forEach(d => d.dispose());
-		this.disposables.forEach(d => d.dispose());
-	}
-}