diff --git a/git_cl.py b/git_cl.py
index 9466e2ce94..23d6fe8158 100755
--- a/git_cl.py
+++ b/git_cl.py
@@ -1402,22 +1402,6 @@ class Changelist(object):
       return '\n'.join([wrapper.fill(line) for line in lines])
     return self.description
 
-  def GetDescriptionFooters(self):
-    """Returns (non_footer_lines, footers) for the commit message.
-
-    Returns:
-      non_footer_lines (list(str)) - Simple list of description lines without
-        any footer. The lines do not contain newlines, nor does the list contain
-        the empty line between the message and the footers.
-      footers (list(tuple(KEY, VALUE))) - List of parsed footers, e.g.
-        [("Change-Id", "Ideadbeef...."), ...]
-    """
-    raw_description = self.GetDescription()
-    msg_lines, _, footers = git_footers.split_footers(raw_description)
-    if footers:
-      msg_lines = msg_lines[:len(msg_lines) - 1]
-    return msg_lines, footers
-
   def GetPatchset(self):
     """Returns the patchset number as a int or None if not set."""
     if self.patchset is None and not self.lookedup_patchset:
@@ -1513,28 +1497,7 @@ class Changelist(object):
     self.description = description
     self.has_description = True
 
-  def UpdateDescriptionFooters(self, description_lines, footers, force=False):
-    """Sets the description for this CL remotely.
-
-    You can get description_lines and footers with GetDescriptionFooters.
 
-    Args:
-      description_lines (list(str)) - List of CL description lines without
-        newline characters.
-      footers (list(tuple(KEY, VALUE))) - List of footers, as returned by
-        GetDescriptionFooters. Key must conform to the git footers format (i.e.
-        `List-Of-Tokens`). It will be case-normalized so that each token is
-        title-cased.
-    """
-    new_description = '\n'.join(description_lines)
-    if footers:
-      new_description += '\n'
-      for k, v in footers:
-        foot = '%s: %s' % (git_footers.normalize_name(k), v)
-        if not git_footers.FOOTER_PATTERN.match(foot):
-          raise ValueError('Invalid footer %r' % foot)
-        new_description += foot + '\n'
-    self.UpdateDescription(new_description, force)
 
   def RunHook(self, committing, may_prompt, verbose, change, parallel):
     """Calls sys.exit() if the hook fails; returns a HookResults otherwise."""
diff --git a/tests/git_cl_test.py b/tests/git_cl_test.py
index b774734af6..746fc0ec83 100755
--- a/tests/git_cl_test.py
+++ b/tests/git_cl_test.py
@@ -173,43 +173,7 @@ class TestGitClBasic(unittest.TestCase):
     cl = git_cl.Changelist(issue=1, codereview_host='host')
     cl.description = 'x'
     cl.has_description = True
-    cl.FetchDescription = lambda *a, **kw: 'y'
     self.assertEqual(cl.GetDescription(), 'x')
-    self.assertEqual(cl.GetDescription(force=True), 'y')
-    self.assertEqual(cl.GetDescription(), 'y')
-
-  def test_description_footers(self):
-    cl = git_cl.Changelist(issue=1, codereview_host='host')
-    cl.description = '\n'.join([
-      'This is some message',
-      '',
-      'It has some lines',
-      'and, also',
-      '',
-      'Some: Really',
-      'Awesome: Footers',
-    ])
-    cl.has_description = True
-    cl.UpdateDescriptionRemote = lambda *a, **kw: 'y'
-    msg, footers = cl.GetDescriptionFooters()
-    self.assertEqual(
-      msg, ['This is some message', '', 'It has some lines', 'and, also'])
-    self.assertEqual(footers, [('Some', 'Really'), ('Awesome', 'Footers')])
-
-    msg.append('wut')
-    footers.append(('gnarly-dude', 'beans'))
-    cl.UpdateDescriptionFooters(msg, footers)
-    self.assertEqual(cl.GetDescription().splitlines(), [
-      'This is some message',
-      '',
-      'It has some lines',
-      'and, also',
-      'wut'
-      '',
-      'Some: Really',
-      'Awesome: Footers',
-      'Gnarly-Dude: beans',
-    ])
 
   def test_set_preserve_tryjobs(self):
     d = git_cl.ChangeDescription('Simple.')