diff --git a/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go b/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go
index b9a0378b13ed5..c62df8043173a 100644
--- a/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
-	"os"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/argoproj/pkg/stats"
@@ -199,9 +198,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			return nil
 		},
 	}
-	if cmdutil.LogFormat == "" {
-		cmdutil.LogFormat = os.Getenv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_LOGLEVEL")
-	}
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&cmdutil.LogFormat, "logformat", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_LOGFORMAT", "text"), "Set the logging format. One of: text|json")
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&cmdutil.LogLevel, "loglevel", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_LOGLEVEL", "info"), "Set the logging level. One of: debug|info|warn|error")
 	command.Flags().Int64Var(&parallelismLimit, "parallelismlimit", int64(env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_PARALLELISM_LIMIT", 0, 0, math.MaxInt32)), "Limit on number of concurrent manifests generate requests. Any value less the 1 means no limit.")