diff -r 67b7e39b441b -r f77121b6bf1b mercurial/debugcommands.py
--- a/mercurial/debugcommands.py	Thu Dec 07 01:53:14 2017 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/debugcommands.py	Wed Dec 06 22:44:51 2017 +0100
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@
     [('', 'old', None, _('use old-style discovery')),
     ('', 'nonheads', None,
      _('use old-style discovery with non-heads included')),
+    ('', 'rev', [], 'restrict discovery to this set of revs'),
     ] + cmdutil.remoteopts,
     _('[-l REV] [-r REV] [-b BRANCH]... [OTHER]'))
 def debugdiscovery(ui, repo, remoteurl="default", **opts):
@@ -747,11 +748,8 @@
     # make sure tests are repeatable
     random.seed(12323)
 
-    def doit(localheads, remoteheads, remote=remote):
+    def doit(pushedrevs, remoteheads, remote=remote):
         if opts.get('old'):
-            if localheads:
-                raise error.Abort('cannot use localheads with old style '
-                                 'discovery')
             if not util.safehasattr(remote, 'branches'):
                 # enable in-client legacy support
                 remote = localrepo.locallegacypeer(remote.local())
@@ -765,7 +763,12 @@
                 all = dag.ancestorset(dag.internalizeall(common))
                 common = dag.externalizeall(dag.headsetofconnecteds(all))
         else:
-            common, any, hds = setdiscovery.findcommonheads(ui, repo, remote)
+            nodes = None
+            if pushedrevs:
+                revs = scmutil.revrange(repo, pushedrevs)
+                nodes = [repo[r].node() for r in revs]
+            common, any, hds = setdiscovery.findcommonheads(ui, repo, remote,
+                                                            ancestorsof=nodes)
         common = set(common)
         rheads = set(hds)
         lheads = set(repo.heads())
@@ -794,7 +797,7 @@
     else:
         remoterevs, _checkout = hg.addbranchrevs(repo, remote, branches,
                                                  opts.get('remote_head'))
-        localrevs = opts.get('local_head')
+        localrevs = opts.get('rev')
         doit(localrevs, remoterevs)
 
 @command('debugextensions', cmdutil.formatteropts, [], norepo=True)