diff --git a/cleanup b/cleanup
index 8244efda7..a209c2c92 100755
--- a/cleanup
+++ b/cleanup
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -ex
 
 # For CI/CD: only compress if expansion is possible too
 if which xz > /dev/null; then
-  git clean -fdx src
+  if [ -d .git ]; then git clean -fdx src; fi
   cd src
   tar cvJf duckdb.tar.xz duckdb
   rm -rf duckdb
diff --git a/cleanup.win b/cleanup.win
index e347880ec..b8fa55dfd 100644
--- a/cleanup.win
+++ b/cleanup.win
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -ex
 
 # For CI/CD: only compress if expansion is possible too
 if which xz > /dev/null; then
-  git clean -fdx src
+  if [ -d .git ]; then git clean -fdx src; fi
   cd src
   find duckdb -type f | egrep '[.](cc|cpp|h|hpp)$' | xargs dos2unix
   tar cvJf duckdb.tar.xz duckdb