diff --git a/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull-local.c b/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull-local.c
index b5b5728f..50b05a6f 100644
--- a/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull-local.c
+++ b/src/ostree/ot-builtin-pull-local.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ import_one_object (OtLocalCloneData *data,
 
           if (detached_meta)
             {
-              if (!ostree_repo_write_commit_detached_metadata (data->src_repo,
+              if (!ostree_repo_write_commit_detached_metadata (data->dest_repo,
                                                                checksum, detached_meta,
                                                                cancellable, error))
                 goto out;
diff --git a/tests/test-basic.sh b/tests/test-basic.sh
index e0783855..5bac71c8 100755
--- a/tests/test-basic.sh
+++ b/tests/test-basic.sh
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ rm repo2 -rf
 mkdir repo2
 ${CMD_PREFIX} ostree --repo=repo2 init
 ${CMD_PREFIX} ostree --repo=repo2 pull-local repo
+ostree --repo=repo2 show --print-detached-metadata-key=SIGNATURE test2 > test2-meta
+assert_file_has_content test2-meta "HANCOCK"
 echo "ok pull-local after commit metadata"
 
 cd ${test_tmpdir}