diff -r 597b071a0e0d -r d0546e8e1def mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Sat Dec 13 19:23:30 2014 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Sat Dec 13 19:36:50 2014 -0500
@@ -2075,8 +2075,7 @@
             sub = wctx.sub(subpath)
             try:
                 submatch = matchmod.narrowmatcher(subpath, m)
-                if sub.removefiles(ui, submatch, prefix, after, force,
-                                   subrepos):
+                if sub.removefiles(submatch, prefix, after, force, subrepos):
                     ret = 1
             except error.LookupError:
                 ui.status(_("skipping missing subrepository: %s\n")