diff --git a/git-filter-repo b/git-filter-repo
index a1b202d..01ce9a1 100755
--- a/git-filter-repo
+++ b/git-filter-repo
@@ -2026,20 +2026,16 @@ EXAMPLES
       args.path_changes = []
       args.inclusive = False
     else:
-      # Check for incompatible --path-rename (or equivalent specification
-      # from --paths-from-file) used together with either
-      # --use-base-name or --invert-paths.
-      if args.use_base_name or not args.inclusive:
-        if any(x[0] == 'rename' for x in args.path_changes):
-          raise SystemExit(_("Error: path renaming is incompatible with "
-                             "both --use-base-name and --invert-paths"))
-
-      # If we only have renaming paths (i.e. we have no filtering paths),
-      # then no path should be filtered out.  Based on how newname() works,
-      # the easiest way to achieve that is setting args.inclusive to False.
+      # Similarly, if we have no filtering paths, then no path should be
+      # filtered out.  Based on how newname() works, the easiest way to
+      # achieve that is setting args.inclusive to False.
       if not any(x[0] == 'filter' for x in args.path_changes):
         args.inclusive = False
-
+      # Also check for incompatible --use-base-name and --path-rename flags.
+      if args.use_base_name:
+        if any(x[0] == 'rename' for x in args.path_changes):
+          raise SystemExit(_("Error: --use-base-name and --path-rename are "
+                             "incompatible."))
     # Also throw some sanity checks on git version here;
     # PERF: remove these checks once new enough git versions are common
     p = subproc.Popen('git fast-export -h'.split(),
@@ -3279,11 +3275,8 @@ class RepoFilter(object):
           assert match_type in ('match','regex') # glob was translated to regex
           if match_type == 'match' and filename_matches(match, full_pathname):
             full_pathname = full_pathname.replace(match, repl, 1)
-            wanted = filtering_is_inclusive
           if match_type == 'regex':
             full_pathname = match.sub(repl, full_pathname)
-            if full_pathname != pathname:
-              wanted = filtering_is_inclusive
       return full_pathname if (wanted == filtering_is_inclusive) else None
 
     args = self._args
diff --git a/t/t9390-filter-repo.sh b/t/t9390-filter-repo.sh
index 88e9412..4925479 100755
--- a/t/t9390-filter-repo.sh
+++ b/t/t9390-filter-repo.sh
@@ -178,33 +178,6 @@ test_expect_success '--paths-from-file' '
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'Mixing filtering and renaming paths' '
-	test_create_repo path_filtering_and_renaming &&
-	(
-		cd path_filtering_and_renaming &&
-
-		>.gitignore &&
-		mkdir -p src/main/java/com/org/{foo,bar} &&
-		mkdir -p src/main/resources &&
-		test_seq  1 10 >src/main/java/com/org/foo/uptoten &&
-		test_seq 11 20 >src/main/java/com/org/bar/uptotwenty &&
-		test_seq  1  7 >src/main/java/com/org/uptoseven &&
-		test_seq  1  5 >src/main/resources/uptofive &&
-		git add . &&
-		git commit -m Initial &&
-
-		git filter-repo --path .gitignore --path src/main/resources --path-rename src/main/java/com/org/foo/:src/main/java/com/org/ --force &&
-
-		cat <<-EOF >expect &&
-		.gitignore
-		src/main/java/com/org/uptoten
-		src/main/resources/uptofive
-		EOF
-		git ls-files >actual &&
-		test_cmp expect actual
-	)
-'
-
 test_expect_success 'setup metasyntactic repo' '
 	test_create_repo metasyntactic &&
 	(
@@ -1120,7 +1093,7 @@ test_expect_success 'other startup error cases and requests for help' '
 		test_i18ngrep ": --analyze is incompatible with --stdin" err &&
 
 		test_must_fail git filter-repo --path-rename foo:bar --use-base-name 2>err &&
-		test_i18ngrep ": path renaming is incompatible with both --use-base-name and --invert-paths" err &&
+		test_i18ngrep ": --use-base-name and --path-rename are incompatible" err &&
 
 		test_must_fail git filter-repo --path-rename foo:bar/ 2>err &&
 		test_i18ngrep "either ends with a slash then both must." err &&