diff --git a/src/millipds/app_util.py b/src/millipds/app_util.py
index 268ea502..84d16a7e 100644
--- a/src/millipds/app_util.py
+++ b/src/millipds/app_util.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 
 # these helpers are useful for conciseness and type hinting
-def get_db(req: web.Request):
+def get_db(req: web.Request) -> database.Database:
 	return req.app[MILLIPDS_DB]
 
 
diff --git a/src/millipds/atproto_sync.py b/src/millipds/atproto_sync.py
index 0dc4326c..4bb0bf74 100644
--- a/src/millipds/atproto_sync.py
+++ b/src/millipds/atproto_sync.py
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
-from typing import Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Optional, Tuple, cast
 import logging
 import asyncio
 
 from aiohttp import web
 import cbrrr
+from apsw import Connection
+from atmst.blockstore import BlockStore
+from atmst.mst.node import MSTNode
+from atmst.mst.node_store import NodeStore
 
 from . import static_config
 from . import repo_ops
 from . import util
 from .app_util import *
+from .database import DBBlockStore
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -152,6 +157,7 @@ async def sync_get_blocks(request: web.Request):
 	await res.write(util.serialize_car_header())
 	for cid in cids:
 		# we don't use executemany so as not to hog the db
+		# XXX: there are no indexes on user(id, head) or record(repo, cid)!!!
 		row = db.con.execute(
 			"""
 				SELECT commit_bytes FROM user WHERE head=? AND id=?
@@ -220,6 +226,37 @@ async def sync_get_repo_status(request: web.Request):
 	return web.json_response({"did": did, "active": True, "rev": row[0]})
 
 
+async def _visit_mst_node(
+	res: web.StreamResponse, bs: DBBlockStore, node_cid: Optional[cbrrr.CID]
+):
+	if node_cid is None:
+		return
+	node_cid_bytes = bytes(node_cid)
+	node_bytes = bs.get_block(node_cid_bytes)
+
+	# emit this node
+	await res.write(util.serialize_car_entry(node_cid_bytes, node_bytes))
+
+	node = MSTNode.deserialise(node_bytes)
+	await _visit_mst_node(res, bs, node.subtrees[0])
+	for record_path, record_cid, subtree_cid in zip(
+		node.keys, node.vals, node.subtrees[1:]
+	):
+		record_cid_bytes = bytes(record_cid)
+		collection, rkey = util.split_path(record_path)
+		# this is a bit of a hack to reuse the blockstore's db connection.
+		# we lookup records by repo/collection/rkey because there is no index on CID!
+		record_bytes = bs.db.execute(
+			"SELECT value FROM record WHERE repo=? AND nsid=? AND rkey=?",
+			(bs.user_id, collection, rkey),
+		).get
+		assert isinstance(record_bytes, bytes)
+		await res.write(
+			util.serialize_car_entry(record_cid_bytes, record_bytes)
+		)
+		await _visit_mst_node(res, bs, subtree_cid)
+
+
 @routes.get("/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getRepo")
 async def sync_get_repo(request: web.Request):
 	did = request.query.get("did")
@@ -245,21 +282,26 @@ async def sync_get_repo(request: web.Request):
 				await res.write(util.serialize_car_header(head))
 				await res.write(util.serialize_car_entry(head, commit_bytes))
 
-				for mst_cid, mst_value in con.execute(
-					"SELECT cid, value FROM mst WHERE repo=? AND since>?",
-					(user_id, since),
-				):
-					await res.write(
-						util.serialize_car_entry(mst_cid, mst_value)
-					)
-
-				for record_cid, record_value in con.execute(
-					"SELECT cid, value FROM record WHERE repo=? AND since>?",
-					(user_id, since),
-				):
-					await res.write(
-						util.serialize_car_entry(record_cid, record_value)
-					)
+				if since:  # "since" is deprecated in sync1.1 - we support it but the order of returned blocks is undefined
+					for mst_cid, mst_value in con.execute(
+						"SELECT cid, value FROM mst WHERE repo=? AND since>?",
+						(user_id, since),
+					):
+						await res.write(
+							util.serialize_car_entry(mst_cid, mst_value)
+						)
+
+					for record_cid, record_value in con.execute(
+						"SELECT cid, value FROM record WHERE repo=? AND since>?",
+						(user_id, since),
+					):
+						await res.write(
+							util.serialize_car_entry(record_cid, record_value)
+						)
+				else:  # sync1.1 ordering
+					bs = DBBlockStore(con, did)
+					commit = cast(dict, cbrrr.decode_dag_cbor(commit_bytes))
+					await _visit_mst_node(res, bs, commit["data"])
 
 				await res.write_eof()
 				return res