diff --git a/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman b/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
index 5514edcf68..d8e7a1e5ba 100755
--- a/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
+++ b/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ my ($version, $time) = @ARGV;
 
 if ($version == 1) {
 	# convert nanoseconds to seconds
-	$time = int $time / 1000000000;
+	# subtract one second to make sure watchman will return all changes
+	$time = int ($time / 1000000000) - 1;
 } else {
 	die "Unsupported query-fsmonitor hook version '$version'.\n" .
 	    "Falling back to scanning...\n";
@@ -54,18 +55,12 @@ sub launch_watchman {
 	#
 	# To accomplish this, we're using the "since" generator to use the
 	# recency index to select candidate nodes and "fields" to limit the
-	# output to file names only. Then we're using the "expression" term to
-	# further constrain the results.
-	#
-	# The category of transient files that we want to ignore will have a
-	# creation clock (cclock) newer than $time_t value and will also not
-	# currently exist.
+	# output to file names only.
 
 	my $query = <<"	END";
 		["query", "$git_work_tree", {
 			"since": $time,
-			"fields": ["name"],
-			"expression": ["not", ["allof", ["since", $time, "cclock"], ["not", "exists"]]]
+			"fields": ["name"]
 		}]
 	END
 	
diff --git a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
index e673bb3980..ef94fa2938 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ my ($version, $time) = @ARGV;
 
 if ($version == 1) {
 	# convert nanoseconds to seconds
-	$time = int $time / 1000000000;
+	# subtract one second to make sure watchman will return all changes
+	$time = int ($time / 1000000000) - 1;
 } else {
 	die "Unsupported query-fsmonitor hook version '$version'.\n" .
 	    "Falling back to scanning...\n";
@@ -53,18 +54,12 @@ sub launch_watchman {
 	#
 	# To accomplish this, we're using the "since" generator to use the
 	# recency index to select candidate nodes and "fields" to limit the
-	# output to file names only. Then we're using the "expression" term to
-	# further constrain the results.
-	#
-	# The category of transient files that we want to ignore will have a
-	# creation clock (cclock) newer than $time_t value and will also not
-	# currently exist.
+	# output to file names only.
 
 	my $query = <<"	END";
 		["query", "$git_work_tree", {
 			"since": $time,
-			"fields": ["name"],
-			"expression": ["not", ["allof", ["since", $time, "cclock"], ["not", "exists"]]]
+			"fields": ["name"]
 		}]
 	END