diff --git a/pkg/apiserver/storage/file/file.go b/pkg/apiserver/storage/file/file.go
index d3c70ba268b..68fb81583d8 100644
--- a/pkg/apiserver/storage/file/file.go
+++ b/pkg/apiserver/storage/file/file.go
@@ -355,10 +355,9 @@ func (s *Storage) GetList(ctx context.Context, key string, opts storage.ListOpti
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// TODO: hack the resource version for now
 	// Watch is failing when set the list resourceVersion to 0, even though informers provide that in the opts
 	if opts.ResourceVersion == "0" {
-		opts.ResourceVersion = "1"
+		opts.ResourceVersion = ""
 	}
 
 	if opts.ResourceVersion != "" {