diff --git a/.coafile b/.coafile
deleted file mode 100644
index 625090a1..00000000
--- a/.coafile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-[all]
-# note: put developer specific settings into ~/.coarc (e.g. editor = ...)
-max_line_length = 255
-use_spaces = True
-ignore = src/borg/(checksums.c|chunker.c|compress.c|hashindex.c|item.c),
-         src/borg/crypto/low_level.c,
-         src/borg/platform/*.c
-
-[all.general]
-files = src/borg/**/*.(py|pyx|c)
-bears = SpaceConsistencyBear, FilenameBear, InvalidLinkBear, LineLengthBear
-file_naming_convention = snake
-
-[all.python]
-files = src/borg/**/*.py
-bears = PyDocStyleBear, PyLintBear
-pylint_disable = C0103, C0111, C0112, C0122, C0123, C0301, C0302, C0325, C0330, C0411, C0412, C0413, C1801,
-                 I1101,
-                 W0102, W0104, W0106, W0108, W0120, W0201, W0212, W0221, W0231, W0401, W0404,
-                 W0511, W0603, W0611, W0612, W0613, W0614, W0621, W0622, W0640, W0702, W0703,
-                 W1201, W1202, W1401,
-                 R0101, R0201, R0204, R0901, R0902, R0903, R0904, R0911, R0912, R0913, R0914, R0915,
-                 R0916, R1701, R1704, R1705, R1706, R1710,
-                 E0102, E0202, E0401, E0601, E0611, E0702, E1101, E1102, E1120, E1129, E1130
-pydocstyle_ignore = D100, D101, D102, D103, D104, D105, D200, D201, D202, D203, D204, D205, D209, D210,
-                    D212, D213, D300, D301, D400, D401, D402, D403, D404
-
-[all.c]
-files = src/borg/**/*.c
-bears = CPPCheckBear
-
-[all.html]
-files = src/borg/**/*.html
-bears = HTMLLintBear
-htmllint_ignore = *
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index dcbe1854..caf027ad 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # stuff we need to include into the sdist is handled automatically by
 # setuptools_scm - it includes all git-committed files.
 # but we want to exclude some committed files/dirs not needed in the sdist:
-exclude .coafile .editorconfig .gitattributes .gitignore .mailmap Vagrantfile
+exclude .editorconfig .gitattributes .gitignore .mailmap Vagrantfile
 prune .github
 include src/borg/platform/darwin.c src/borg/platform/freebsd.c src/borg/platform/linux.c src/borg/platform/posix.c
 include src/borg/platform/syncfilerange.c
diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index eff02309..5db1f6d5 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -217,26 +217,6 @@ Important notes:
 - When using ``--`` to give options to py.test, you MUST also give ``borg.testsuite[.module]``.
 
 
-Running more checks using coala
--------------------------------
-
-First install coala and some checkers ("bears"):
-
-::
-
-  pip install -r requirements.d/coala.txt
-
-You can now run coala from the toplevel directory; it will read its settings
-from ``.coafile`` there:
-
-::
-
-  coala
-
-Some bears have additional requirements and they usually tell you about
-them in case they are missing.
-
-
 Adding a compression algorithm
 ------------------------------
 
diff --git a/requirements.d/coala.txt b/requirements.d/coala.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 86ebea3c..00000000
--- a/requirements.d/coala.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# style and other checks for many languages.
-# some bears (checkers) have additional requirements.
-coala
-coala-bears
-