diff --git a/mercurial/revlog.py b/mercurial/revlog.py
--- a/mercurial/revlog.py
+++ b/mercurial/revlog.py
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ class revlog(object):
     def rawsize(self, rev):
         """return the length of the uncompressed text for a given revision"""
         l = self.index[rev][2]
-        if l is not None and l >= 0:
+        if l >= 0:
             return l
 
         t = self.revision(rev, raw=True)