diff --git a/scripts/profile_sync.py b/scripts/profile_sync.py
index 8ffe065c..5e390a67 100644
--- a/scripts/profile_sync.py
+++ b/scripts/profile_sync.py
@@ -3014,8 +3014,16 @@ def _git_history(path: Path) -> list[str] | None:
 
     try:
         result = git("log", "--format=%H", "--", path.name)
-        if result.returncode == 0:
-            return result.stdout.split()
+        deleted = git("log", "--format=%H", "--diff-filter=D", "--", path.name)
+        if result.returncode == 0 and deleted.returncode == 0:
+            # A commit that deletes or renames the file away ends the history
+            # of the profile now at that path: what precedes it is another
+            # profile once filed under the same name (mupen64plus.yml became
+            # mupen64plus_next.yml before the standalone took the name).
+            history = result.stdout.split()
+            ends = set(deleted.stdout.split())
+            cut = next((i for i, sha in enumerate(history) if sha in ends), len(history))
+            return history[:cut]
         # A repository with no commit yet holds nothing written earlier.
         inside = git("rev-parse", "--is-inside-work-tree")
         if inside.stdout.strip() == "true" and git("rev-parse", "-q", "--verify", "HEAD").returncode:
diff --git a/tests/test_profile_sync.py b/tests/test_profile_sync.py
index 44de3c9e..ee155833 100644
--- a/tests/test_profile_sync.py
+++ b/tests/test_profile_sync.py
@@ -4068,6 +4068,26 @@ class TestRealignProse(unittest.TestCase):
         messages = profile_sync.realign_prose(self.path, self.tmp.name, dry_run=True)
         self.assertTrue(any("unreadable" in m for m in messages), messages)
 
+    def test_a_deleted_namesake_is_not_the_profiles_history(self):
+        """mupen64plus.yml was renamed away in March, and a new standalone
+        profile took the name in October. The deletion commit holds no file,
+        so the older revisions were read as a gap and every note reported
+        unreadable."""
+        self._git("init", "-q")
+        self._git("config", "user.email", "t@t")
+        self._git("config", "user.name", "t")
+        self._commit(
+            PROSE_SAMPLE.replace('"pin"', '"older"').replace("a.c:10", "a.c:3"),
+            "old profile",
+        )
+        self._git("rm", "-q", "p.yml")
+        self._git("commit", "-m", "rename away")
+        self._commit(PROSE_SAMPLE, "new profile")
+        self.files[("pin", "a.c")] = ["x"] * 9 + ["subject"]
+        self.assertEqual(
+            profile_sync.realign_prose(self.path, self.tmp.name, dry_run=True), []
+        )
+
     def test_scalar_written_at_the_current_pin_is_left_alone(self):
         self._git("init", "-q")
         self._git("config", "user.email", "t@t")