diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3847a96..e5e4f76 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ Categories Used:
 - New Features - new features added to ouch itself, not CI
 - Bug Fixes
 - Improvements - general enhancements
-- Tweaks - Anything that doesn't fit into other categories, small typo fixes, most CI stuff, meta changes (e.g. README updates), etc.
+- Tweaks - anything that doesn't fit into other categories, small typo fixes, most CI stuff,
+  meta changes (e.g. README updates), etc.
+- Regression - removal of a feature (that might be readded, or reworked in the future)
 
 **Bullet points in chronological order by PR**
 
@@ -100,6 +102,10 @@ Categories Used:
 - Update dependencies [\#276](https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/276) ([figsoda](https://github.com/figsoda))
 - Rewrite progress module [\#280](https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/280) ([figsoda](https://github.com/figsoda))
 
+### Regression
+
+- Remove automatic detection for partial compression [\#286](https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/286) ([marcospb19](https://github.com/marcospb19))
+
 ### New Contributors
 
 - [@sigmaSd](https://github.com/sigmaSd) made their first contribution in [\#154](https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch/pull/154)
diff --git a/src/commands/mod.rs b/src/commands/mod.rs
index b1c3fec..d264e51 100644
--- a/src/commands/mod.rs
+++ b/src/commands/mod.rs
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ pub fn run(
             }
 
             // Formats from path extension, like "file.tar.gz.xz" -> vec![Tar, Gzip, Lzma]
-            let mut formats = extension::extensions_from_path(&output_path);
+            let formats = extension::extensions_from_path(&output_path);
 
             if formats.is_empty() {
                 let error = FinalError::with_title(format!("Cannot compress to '{}'.", to_utf(&output_path)))
@@ -172,48 +172,6 @@ pub fn run(
             }
 
             let output_file = fs::File::create(&output_path)?;
-
-            if !represents_several_files(&files) {
-                // It is possible the file is already partially compressed so we don't want to compress it again
-                // `ouch compress file.tar.gz file.tar.gz.xz` should produce `file.tar.gz.xz` and not `file.tar.gz.tar.gz.xz`
-                let input_extensions = extension::extensions_from_path(&files[0]);
-
-                // We calculate the formats that are left if we filter out a sublist at the start of what we have that's the same as the input formats
-                let mut new_formats = Vec::with_capacity(formats.len());
-                for (inp_ext, out_ext) in input_extensions.iter().zip(&formats) {
-                    if inp_ext.compression_formats == out_ext.compression_formats {
-                        new_formats.push(out_ext.clone());
-                    } else if inp_ext
-                        .compression_formats
-                        .iter()
-                        .zip(out_ext.compression_formats.iter())
-                        .all(|(inp, out)| inp == out)
-                    {
-                        let new_ext = Extension::new(
-                            &out_ext.compression_formats[..inp_ext.compression_formats.len()],
-                            &out_ext.display_text,
-                        );
-                        new_formats.push(new_ext);
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-                // If the input is a sublist at the start of `formats` then remove the extensions
-                // Note: If input_extensions is empty then it will make `formats` empty too, which we don't want
-                if !input_extensions.is_empty() && new_formats != formats {
-                    // Safety:
-                    //   We checked above that input_extensions isn't empty, so files[0] has an extension.
-                    //
-                    //   Path::extension says: "if there is no file_name, then there is no extension".
-                    //   Contrapositive statement: "if there is extension, then there is file_name".
-                    info!(
-                        accessible, // important information
-                        "Partial compression detected. Compressing {} into {}",
-                        to_utf(files[0].as_path().file_name().unwrap().as_ref()),
-                        to_utf(&output_path)
-                    );
-                    formats = new_formats;
-                }
-            }
             let compress_result = compress_files(
                 files,
                 formats,