Remote history conflict. Please pull latest changes and try

Error message

Remote history conflict. Please pull latest changes and try again

What it means

Error "Remote history conflict. Please pull latest changes and try again" thrown in Kong/insomnia.

Source

Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:763

      throw new Error('teamId should be defined');
    }

    const teamKeys = await this._queryTeamMemberKeys(teamId);
    return this._queryCreateProject(rootDocumentId, name, teamId, teamProjectId, teamKeys.memberKeys);
  }

  // TODO: may be we can create another push function for initial push, so that we can reduce some api calls
  async push({ teamId, teamProjectId }: { teamId: string; teamProjectId: string }) {
    await this._getOrCreateRemoteBackendProject({ teamId, teamProjectId });
    const branch = await this._getCurrentBranch();
    // Check branch history to make sure there are no conflicts
    let lastMatchingIndex = 0;
    const remoteBranch: Branch | null = await this._queryBranch(branch.name);
    const remoteBranchSnapshots = remoteBranch ? remoteBranch.snapshots : [];

    for (; lastMatchingIndex < remoteBranchSnapshots.length; lastMatchingIndex++) {
      if (remoteBranchSnapshots[lastMatchingIndex] !== branch.snapshots[lastMatchingIndex]) {
        throw new Error('Remote history conflict. Please pull latest changes and try again');
      }
    }

    // Get the remaining snapshots to push
    const snapshotIdsToPush = branch.snapshots.slice(lastMatchingIndex);

    if (snapshotIdsToPush.length === 0) {
      throw new Error('Already up to date');
    }

    // Gather a list of snapshot state entries to push
    const allBlobIds = new Set<string>();
    const snapshots: Snapshot[] = [];

    for (const id of snapshotIdsToPush) {
      const snapshot = await this._assertSnapshot(id);
      snapshots.push(snapshot);

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:763 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of Kong/insomnia@d9bb2b0142 (2026-08-26). Data as JSON: /api/errors/cc5bb529fc56ee81. Report an issue: GitHub.