diff --git a/packages/backend-common/src/reading/GerritUrlReader.ts b/packages/backend-common/src/reading/GerritUrlReader.ts
index 417eca2e57..8ac5452a4c 100644
--- a/packages/backend-common/src/reading/GerritUrlReader.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-common/src/reading/GerritUrlReader.ts
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ export class GerritUrlReader implements UrlReader {
       });
       const tarArchive = Readable.from(data);
       return await this.deps.treeResponseFactory.fromTarArchive({
-        stream: Readable.from(tarArchive),
+        stream: tarArchive,
         subpath: filePath === '/' ? undefined : filePath,
         etag: branchInfo.revision,
         filter: options?.filter,
diff --git a/packages/backend-common/src/reading/tree/TarArchiveResponse.ts b/packages/backend-common/src/reading/tree/TarArchiveResponse.ts
index eeda6e25f3..e1529c196a 100644
--- a/packages/backend-common/src/reading/tree/TarArchiveResponse.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-common/src/reading/tree/TarArchiveResponse.ts
@@ -151,9 +151,6 @@ export class TarArchiveResponse implements ReadTreeResponse {
     const strip = this.subPath ? this.subPath.split('/').length : 1;
 
     let filterError: Error | undefined = undefined;
-    this.stream.on('error', console.error);
-    this.stream.on('close', console.error);
-    console.log('we are here!');
     await pipeline(
       this.stream,
       tar.extract({