diff --git a/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/main.yml
index d81d103559b..d796d13b816 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/main.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,28 @@
   set_fact:
     virtualenv: "{{ command.stdout_lines[0] }}"
 
-- include: 'pip.yml'
+- block:
+    - name: install git, needed for repo installs
+      package:
+        name: git
+        state: present
+      when: ansible_distribution != "MacOSX"
+      register: git_install
+
+    - include_tasks: pip.yml
+  always:
+    - name: remove unwanted packages
+      package:
+        name: git
+        state: absent
+      when: git_install.changed
+
+    - name: remove auto-installed packages from FreeBSD
+      pkgng:
+        name: git
+        state: absent
+        autoremove: yes
+      when: git_install.changed and ansible_distribution == "FreeBSD"
   when: ansible_fips|bool != True
   module_defaults:
     pip:
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/pip.yml b/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/pip.yml
index 78b0b9cd506..3ff453289ca 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/pip.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/pip/tasks/pip.yml
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@
 
 # FIXME: replace the python test package
 
-- name: install git, needed for repo installs
-  package:
-    name: git
-    state: present
-  when: ansible_distribution != "MacOSX"
-
 # first some tests installed system-wide
 # verify things were not installed to start with
 
@@ -139,7 +133,7 @@
       - "not (req_installed is changed)"
 
 - name: install the same module from url
-  pip: 
+  pip:
     name: "git+https://github.com/dvarrazzo/pyiso8601#egg=pyiso8601"
     virtualenv: "{{ output_dir }}/pipenv"
     editable: True