diff --git a/recipes-devtools/yq/yq_git.bb b/recipes-devtools/yq/yq_git.bb
index 363769b9..415a4a4e 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/yq/yq_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/yq/yq_git.bb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SRCREV_text = "566b44fc931e2542778a18423c655ce99b4f1402"
 SRC_URI += "git://go.googlesource.com/text;name=text;protocol=https;nobranch=1;destsuffix=${GO_SRCURI_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/golang.org/x/text"
 
 SRCREV_diff = "20ebb0f2a09e612109b224b32f79370409108bcc"
-SRC_URI += "git://github.com/pkg/diff;name=diff;protocol=https;nobranch=1;destsuffix=${GO_SRCURI_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/github.com/pkg/diff"
+SRC_URI += "git://github.com/pkg/diff;name=diff;protocol=https;nobranch=1;destsuffix=${GO_SRCURI_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/github.com/pkg/diff;apply=no"
 
 SRCREV_color = "1c8d8706604ee5fb9a464e5097ba113101828a75"
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/fatih/color;name=color;protocol=https;nobranch=1;destsuffix=${GO_SRCURI_DESTSUFFIX}/vendor/github.com/fatih/color"