diff --git a/src/applications/diffusion/query/lastmodified/DiffusionMercurialLastModifiedQuery.php b/src/applications/diffusion/query/lastmodified/DiffusionMercurialLastModifiedQuery.php
index e0a40e76c..4a7c89f22 100644
--- a/src/applications/diffusion/query/lastmodified/DiffusionMercurialLastModifiedQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/diffusion/query/lastmodified/DiffusionMercurialLastModifiedQuery.php
@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
 <?php
 
 final class DiffusionMercurialLastModifiedQuery
   extends DiffusionLastModifiedQuery {
 
   protected function executeQuery() {
     $drequest = $this->getRequest();
     $repository = $drequest->getRepository();
 
     $path = $drequest->getPath();
 
     list($hash) = $repository->execxLocalCommand(
-      'log --template %s --limit 1 --rev %s -- %s',
+      'log --template %s --limit 1 --removed --rev %s -- %s',
       '{node}',
       hgsprintf('reverse(%s::%s)', '0', $drequest->getCommit()),
       nonempty(ltrim($path, '/'), '.'));
 
     $commit = id(new PhabricatorRepositoryCommit())->loadOneWhere(
       'repositoryID = %d AND commitIdentifier = %s',
       $repository->getID(),
       $hash);
 
     if ($commit) {
       $commit_data = $commit->loadCommitData();
     } else {
       $commit_data = null;
     }
 
     return array($commit, $commit_data);
   }
 
 }