diff --git a/hack/make-rules/helpers/cache_go_dirs.sh b/hack/make-rules/helpers/cache_go_dirs.sh
index 2c69cd393ce..cfd4fa25af1 100755
--- a/hack/make-rules/helpers/cache_go_dirs.sh
+++ b/hack/make-rules/helpers/cache_go_dirs.sh
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ trap 'rm -f "${CACHE}"' HUP INT TERM ERR
 function kfind() {
     # We want to include the "special" vendor directories which are actually
     # part of the Kubernetes source tree (./staging/*) but we need them to be
-    # named as their ./vendor/* equivalents.  Also, we  do not want all of
-    # ./vendor , ./hack/tools/vendor or even all of ./vendor/k8s.io.
+    # named as their ./vendor/* equivalents.  Also, we do not want all of
+    # ./vendor nor ./hack/tools/vendor nor even all of ./vendor/k8s.io.
     find -H .                      \
         \(                         \
         -not \(                    \
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ function kfind() {
                 \(                 \
                   -name 'vendor'   \
                   -type d          \
+                \) -o              \
+                \(                 \
+                  -name 'testdata' \
+                  -type d          \
                 \)                 \
             \) -prune              \
         \)                         \