Possible --remove-empty bug

From today git:

$ git-rev-parse HEAD
be767c91724275c4534965c0d25c452b76057602
$ git-rev-list be767c91724275c4534965c0d25c452b76057602 -- imap-send.c
f2561fda364ad984ef1441a80c90b0ee04f1a7c4
$ git-rev-list --remove-empty be767c91724275c4534965c0d25c452b76057602
-- imap-send.c
$

From git-rev-list documentation:

--remove-empty::
	Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.

But isn't it to be intended *after* a path disapperas from the tree?
In this case I would expect to see revision
f2561fda364ad984ef1441a80c90b0ee04f1a7c4 also with --remove-empty
option.

BTW rev f2561fda364ad984ef1441a80c90b0ee04f1a7c4 is the 'Add
git-imap-send, derived from isync 1.0.1.' patch.

Thanks
Marco