diff --git a/mercurial/revset.py b/mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py
@@ -960,9 +960,6 @@
     The pattern without explicit kind like ``glob:`` is expected to be
     relative to the current directory and match against a file exactly
     for efficiency.
-
-    If some linkrev points to revisions filtered by the current repoview, we'll
-    work around it to return a non-filtered value.
     """
 
     # i18n: "filelog" is a keyword