diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
index aa199c2b5..eceac7bd1 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ package org.apache.hudi.table.action.commit;
 import org.apache.hudi.client.WriteStatus;
 import org.apache.hudi.client.utils.SparkMemoryUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieEngineContext;
-import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieBaseFile;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieCommitMetadata;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieKey;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecord;
@@ -336,13 +335,6 @@ public abstract class BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayloa
     }
   }
 
-  protected HoodieMergeHandle getUpdateHandle(String partitionPath, String fileId,
-                                              Map<String, HoodieRecord<T>> keyToNewRecords,
-                                              HoodieBaseFile dataFileToBeMerged) {
-    return new HoodieMergeHandle<>(config, instantTime, table, keyToNewRecords,
-        partitionPath, fileId, dataFileToBeMerged, taskContextSupplier);
-  }
-
   @Override
   public void syncTableMetadata() {
     // Open up the metadata table again, for syncing