diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevWalkPathFilter1Test.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevWalkPathFilter1Test.java
index 31629f3de..5cce11aa1 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevWalkPathFilter1Test.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/RevWalkPathFilter1Test.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 import java.util.Collections;
 
+import org.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCacheEntry;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.AndTreeFilter;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.PathFilterGroup;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.TreeFilter;
@@ -253,4 +254,23 @@ public void testStringOfPearls_FilePath3_NoParentRewriting()
 		assertEquals(0, a.getParentCount());
 		assertNull(rw.next());
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testStopWhenPathDisappears() throws Exception {
+		DirCacheEntry file1 = file("src/d1/file1", blob("a"));
+		DirCacheEntry file2 = file("src/d1/file2", blob("a"));
+		DirCacheEntry file3 = file("src/d1/file3", blob("a"));
+		RevCommit a = commit(tree(file1));
+		RevCommit b = commit(tree(file1, file2), a);
+		RevCommit c = commit(tree(file1, file3), a);
+		RevCommit d = commit(tree(file1, file2, file3), b, c);
+		filter("src/d1");
+		markStart(d);
+		rw.setRewriteParents(false);
+
+		assertCommit(d, rw.next());
+		assertCommit(c, rw.next());
+		assertCommit(b, rw.next());
+		assertCommit(a, rw.next());
+	}
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileSnapshot.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileSnapshot.java
index 5ab973f53..6088c152a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileSnapshot.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileSnapshot.java
@@ -420,15 +420,6 @@ public boolean equals(Object obj) {
 		return equals(other);
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Check if the file exists
-	 *
-	 * @return true if the file exists
-	 */
-	public boolean fileExists() {
-		return !MISSING_FILEKEY.equals(this.fileKey);
-	}
-
 	/** {@inheritDoc} */
 	@Override
 	public int hashCode() {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
index 2167262dd..07e38147f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/RefDirectory.java
@@ -1092,10 +1092,6 @@ LooseRef scanRef(LooseRef ref, String name) throws IOException {
 		final int limit = 4096;
 		final byte[] buf;
 		FileSnapshot otherSnapshot = FileSnapshot.save(path);
-		if (!otherSnapshot.fileExists()) {
-			return null;
-		}
-
 		try {
 			buf = IO.readSome(path, limit);
 		} catch (FileNotFoundException noFile) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/TreeRevFilter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/TreeRevFilter.java
index e46502431..822fc5320 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/TreeRevFilter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/revwalk/TreeRevFilter.java
@@ -211,7 +211,10 @@ public boolean include(RevWalk walker, RevCommit c)
 				// "empty tree root" and thus their history is not relevant.
 				// Cut our grandparents to be an empty list.
 				//
-				pList[i].parents = RevCommit.NO_PARENTS;
+				tw.reset(pList[i].getTree());
+				if (!tw.next()) {
+					pList[i].parents = RevCommit.NO_PARENTS;
+				}
 			}
 
 			// We have an interesting difference relative to this parent.