diff --git a/cli/src/cli_util.rs b/cli/src/cli_util.rs
index 18aad423fc..d7ef071108 100644
--- a/cli/src/cli_util.rs
+++ b/cli/src/cli_util.rs
@@ -1418,9 +1418,8 @@ See https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/working-copy.md#stale-workin
         // are millions of commits added to the repo, assuming the revset engine can
         // efficiently skip non-conflicting commits. Filter out empty commits mostly so
         // `jj new <conflicted commit>` doesn't result in a message about new conflicts.
-        let conflicts = RevsetExpression::filter(RevsetFilterPredicate::HasConflict).intersection(
-            &RevsetExpression::filter(RevsetFilterPredicate::File(FilesetExpression::all())),
-        );
+        let conflicts = RevsetExpression::filter(RevsetFilterPredicate::HasConflict)
+            .filtered(RevsetFilterPredicate::File(FilesetExpression::all()));
         let removed_conflicts_expr = new_heads.range(&old_heads).intersection(&conflicts);
         let added_conflicts_expr = old_heads.range(&new_heads).intersection(&conflicts);
 
diff --git a/cli/src/commands/status.rs b/cli/src/commands/status.rs
index 788cd5b640..7eb3eb4f3d 100644
--- a/cli/src/commands/status.rs
+++ b/cli/src/commands/status.rs
@@ -95,8 +95,10 @@ pub(crate) fn cmd_status(
         // Ancestors with conflicts, excluding the current working copy commit.
         let ancestors_conflicts = workspace_command
             .attach_revset_evaluator(
-                RevsetExpression::filter(RevsetFilterPredicate::HasConflict)
-                    .intersection(&wc_revset.parents().ancestors())
+                wc_revset
+                    .parents()
+                    .ancestors()
+                    .filtered(RevsetFilterPredicate::HasConflict)
                     .minus(&revset_util::parse_immutable_expression(
                         &workspace_command.revset_parse_context(),
                     )?),
diff --git a/lib/src/revset.rs b/lib/src/revset.rs
index ff5d86a997..dbbdb22dc8 100644
--- a/lib/src/revset.rs
+++ b/lib/src/revset.rs
@@ -356,6 +356,13 @@ impl RevsetExpression {
         })
     }
 
+    /// Filter all commits by `predicate` in `self`.
+    pub fn filtered(
+        self: &Rc<RevsetExpression>,
+        predicate: RevsetFilterPredicate,
+    ) -> Rc<RevsetExpression> {
+        self.intersection(&RevsetExpression::filter(predicate))
+    }
     /// Commits that are descendants of `self` and ancestors of `heads`, both
     /// inclusive.
     pub fn dag_range_to(