diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-pull.c b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-pull.c
index 27a36e43..90cdbee2 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-pull.c
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-pull.c
@@ -747,23 +747,6 @@ scan_commit_object (OtPullData         *pull_data,
                                  cancellable, error))
     goto out;
   
-  if (pull_data->flags & OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_RELATED)
-    {
-      const char *name;
-      gs_unref_variant GVariant *csum_v = NULL;
-
-      related_objects = g_variant_get_child_value (commit, 2);
-      iter = g_variant_iter_new (related_objects);
-
-      while (g_variant_iter_loop (iter, "(&s@ay)", &name, &csum_v))
-        {
-          if (!scan_one_metadata_object (pull_data, ostree_checksum_bytes_peek (csum_v),
-                                         OSTREE_OBJECT_TYPE_COMMIT, recursion_depth + 1,
-                                         cancellable, error))
-            goto out;
-        }
-    }
-
   ret = TRUE;
  out:
   if (iter)
diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-repo.h b/src/libostree/ostree-repo.h
index a5ad7413..287975fa 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-repo.h
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-repo.h
@@ -411,11 +411,9 @@ gboolean ostree_repo_prune (OstreeRepo        *self,
 /**
  * OstreeRepoPullFlags:
  * @OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_NONE: No special options for pull
- * @OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_RELATED: Fetch objects referred to by each commit
  */
 typedef enum {
-  OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_NONE,
-  OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_RELATED
+  OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_NONE
 } OstreeRepoPullFlags;
 
 gboolean ostree_repo_pull (OstreeRepo             *self,
diff --git a/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull.c b/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull.c
index 1bb76357..797778dd 100644
--- a/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull.c
+++ b/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull.c
@@ -26,10 +26,7 @@
 #include "ostree.h"
 #include "otutil.h"
 
-gboolean opt_related;
-
 static GOptionEntry options[] = {
-  { "related", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &opt_related, "Download related commits", NULL },
   { NULL }
 };
 
@@ -69,9 +66,6 @@ ostree_builtin_pull (int argc, char **argv, GFile *repo_path, GCancellable *canc
       g_ptr_array_add (refs_to_fetch, NULL);
     }
 
-  if (opt_related)
-    pullflags |= OSTREE_REPO_PULL_FLAGS_RELATED;
-
   if (!ostree_repo_pull (repo, remote, refs_to_fetch ? (char**)refs_to_fetch->pdata : NULL,
                     pullflags, cancellable, error))
     goto out;