incoming: don't request heads that already are common Pull would send a getbundle command where common heads were sent both as common and head, even though there is no reason to request a common head. The request was thus twice as big as necessary and more likely to hit HTTP header size limits. Instead, don't request heads that already are common. This is fixed in bundlerepo.getremotechanges . It could perhaps also have been fixed in discovery.findcommonincoming but that would have a bigger impact.