diff --git a/remotefilelog/shallowbundle.py b/remotefilelog/shallowbundle.py
--- a/remotefilelog/shallowbundle.py
+++ b/remotefilelog/shallowbundle.py
@@ -137,50 +137,6 @@
             if filestosend == NoFiles:
                 changedfiles = list([f for f in changedfiles
                                      if not repo.shallowmatch(f)])
-            else:
-                def linknodes(store, fname):
-                    # TODO(augie): this logic is almost certainly
-                    # incorrect in some subtle way. See the
-                    # similarly-named closure in
-                    # mercurial.changegroup.cgpacker.generatefiles.
-                    return {}
-
-                files = []
-                # Prefetch the revisions being bundled
-                for i, fname in enumerate(sorted(changedfiles)):
-                    filerevlog = repo.file(fname)
-                    linkrevnodes = linknodes(filerevlog, fname)
-                    # Normally we'd prune the linkrevnodes first,
-                    # but that would perform the server fetches one by one.
-                    for fnode, cnode in list(linkrevnodes.iteritems()):
-                        # Adjust linknodes so remote file revisions aren't sent
-                        if filestosend == LocalFiles:
-                            localkey = fileserverclient.getlocalkey(fname,
-                                                                    hex(fnode))
-                            localpath = repo.sjoin(os.path.join("data",
-                                                                localkey))
-                            if (not os.path.exists(localpath)
-                                and repo.shallowmatch(fname)):
-                                del linkrevnodes[fnode]
-                            else:
-                                files.append((fname, hex(fnode)))
-                        else:
-                            files.append((fname, hex(fnode)))
-
-                repo.fileservice.prefetch(files)
-
-                # Prefetch the revisions that are going to be diffed against
-                prevfiles = []
-                for fname, fnode in files:
-                    if repo.shallowmatch(fname):
-                        fnode = bin(fnode)
-                        filerevlog = repo.file(fname)
-                        ancestormap = filerevlog.ancestormap(fnode)
-                        p1, p2, linknode, copyfrom = ancestormap[fnode]
-                        if p1 != nullid:
-                            prevfiles.append((copyfrom or fname, hex(p1)))
-
-                repo.fileservice.prefetch(prevfiles)
 
         return super(shallowcg1packer, self).generatefiles(
             changedfiles, *args)