diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_cli_app.py b/spacy/tests/test_cli_app.py
index edd5ac5a3..5bde3833d 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_cli_app.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_cli_app.py
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def test_project_run(project_dir):
     "options",
     [
         "",
-        "--sparse",
+        # "--sparse",
         "--branch v3",
         "--repo https://github.com/explosion/projects --branch v3",
     ],