diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 42862a733b2..54c7d3be42b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -1607,6 +1607,7 @@ a------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #test files for h5repack
 ./tools/testfiles/test0.h5
 ./tools/testfiles/test1.h5
+./tools/testfiles/test2.h5
 ./tools/testfiles/test3.h5
 ./tools/testfiles/test4.h5
 ./tools/testfiles/test5.h5
diff --git a/tools/h5repack/h5repack.sh.in b/tools/h5repack/h5repack.sh.in
index bebfeab2006..f1c9af27e9d 100755
--- a/tools/h5repack/h5repack.sh.in
+++ b/tools/h5repack/h5repack.sh.in
@@ -138,9 +138,10 @@ if test $USE_FILTER_SZIP = "yes"; then
 USE_FILTER_SZIP_ENCODER=`$RUNSERIAL $H5DETECTSZIP_BIN`
 fi
 
-# copy files (these files have no filters; test2.h5 has copied references that h5diff detects)
+# copy files (these files have no filters) 
 TOOLTEST test0.h5
 TOOLTEST test1.h5
+TOOLTEST test2.h5
 TOOLTEST test3.h5
 TOOLTEST test4.h5
 TOOLTEST test5.h5
diff --git a/tools/testfiles/test2.h5 b/tools/testfiles/test2.h5
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f14a61c5380
Binary files /dev/null and b/tools/testfiles/test2.h5 differ