diff --git a/remotefilelog/__init__.py b/remotefilelog/__init__.py
--- a/remotefilelog/__init__.py
+++ b/remotefilelog/__init__.py
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
     localrepo,
     match,
     merge,
+    node as nodemod,
     patch,
     registrar,
     repair,
@@ -554,7 +555,14 @@
     wrapfunction(hg, 'verify', _verify)
 
     if util.safehasattr(cmdutil, '_revertprefetch'):
+        # This mechanism was removed in f1f8b655da32, but is more focused than
+        # the _fileprefetchhook mechanism, so we prefer it for now.
         wrapfunction(cmdutil, '_revertprefetch', _revertprefetch)
+    elif util.safehasattr(scmutil, 'fileprefetchhooks'):
+        # This mechanism may overlap some of the other prefetch mechanisms we
+        # established earlier, performing duplicate or extraneous work, but it
+        # works after f1f8b655da32.
+        scmutil.fileprefetchhooks.add('remotefilelog', _fileprefetchhook)
     else:
         wrapfunction(cmdutil, 'revert', revert)
 
@@ -922,7 +930,7 @@
 
 def _revertprefetch(orig, repo, ctx, *files):
     # prefetch data that needs to be reverted
-    # used for new mercurial version
+    # used for new mercurial version up until f1f8b655da32
     if shallowrepo.requirement in repo.requirements:
         allfiles = []
         mf = ctx.manifest()
@@ -934,6 +942,20 @@
         repo.fileservice.prefetch(allfiles)
     return orig(repo, ctx, *files)
 
+def _fileprefetchhook(repo, revs, match):
+    if shallowrepo.requirement in repo.requirements:
+        allfiles = []
+        for rev in revs:
+            if rev == nodemod.wdirrev or rev is None:
+                continue
+            ctx = repo[rev]
+            mf = ctx.manifest()
+            sparsematch = repo.maybesparsematch(ctx.rev())
+            for path in ctx.walk(match):
+                if (not sparsematch or sparsematch(path)) and path in mf:
+                    allfiles.append((path, hex(mf[path])))
+        repo.fileservice.prefetch(allfiles)
+
 @command('debugremotefilelog', [
     ('d', 'decompress', None, _('decompress the filelog first')),
     ], _('hg debugremotefilelog <path>'), norepo=True)