diff --git a/.build/run-tests.sh b/.build/run-tests.sh
index 35b166f863..821d6ac448 100755
--- a/.build/run-tests.sh
+++ b/.build/run-tests.sh
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ _build_all_dtest_jars() {
         rm -fR ${TMP_DIR}/cassandra-dtest-jars
         pushd $TMP_DIR >/dev/null
         until git clone --quiet --depth 1 --no-single-branch https://github.com/apache/cassandra.git cassandra-dtest-jars ; do echo "git clone failed… trying again… " ; done
-        chmod -R ag+rwx cassandra-dtest-jars
         popd >/dev/null
     fi
 
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ _build_all_dtest_jars() {
 
     pushd ${TMP_DIR}/cassandra-dtest-jars >/dev/null
     for branch in cassandra-4.0 cassandra-4.1 cassandra-5.0 trunk ; do
-        git reset --hard HEAD && git clean -qxdff  || echo "failed to reset/clean ${TMP_DIR}/cassandra-dtest-jars… continuing…"
+        git clean -qxdff && git reset --hard HEAD  || echo "failed to reset/clean ${TMP_DIR}/cassandra-dtest-jars… continuing…"
         git checkout --quiet $branch
         dtest_jar_version=$(grep 'property\s*name=\"base.version\"' build.xml |sed -ne 's/.*value=\"\([^"]*\)\".*/\1/p')
         if [ -f "${DIST_DIR}/dtest-${dtest_jar_version}.jar" ] ; then