diff --git a/mercurial/wireprotov2server.py b/mercurial/wireprotov2server.py
--- a/mercurial/wireprotov2server.py
+++ b/mercurial/wireprotov2server.py
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@
         followingdata = []
 
         if b'revision' in fields:
-            revisiondata = cl.rawdata(node)
+            revisiondata = cl.revision(node)
             followingmeta.append((b'revision', len(revisiondata)))
             followingdata.append(revisiondata)