diff --git a/mercurial/copies.py b/mercurial/copies.py
--- a/mercurial/copies.py
+++ b/mercurial/copies.py
@@ -279,8 +279,6 @@
             copies = {}
             allcopies = set(copies1) | set(copies2)
             for dst in allcopies:
-                if not alwaysmatch and not match(dst):
-                    continue
                 # Unlike when copies are stored in the filelog, we consider
                 # it a copy even if the destination already existed on the
                 # other branch. It's simply too expensive to check if the