diff --git a/packages/automerge-repo/src/DocHandle.ts b/packages/automerge-repo/src/DocHandle.ts
index 367b4b53..55554b99 100644
--- a/packages/automerge-repo/src/DocHandle.ts
+++ b/packages/automerge-repo/src/DocHandle.ts
@@ -318,7 +318,13 @@ export class DocHandle<T> extends EventEmitter<DocHandleEvents<T>> {
    * Creates a fixed "view" of an automerge document at the given point in time represented
    * by the `heads` passed in. The return value is the same type as docSync() and will return
    * undefined if the object hasn't finished loading.
-   * @returns
+   *
+   * @remarks
+   * Note that our Typescript types do not consider change over time and the current version
+   * of Automerge doesn't check types at runtime, so if you go back to an old set of heads
+   * that doesn't match the heads here, Typescript will not save you.
+   *
+   * @returns An Automerge.Doc<T> at the point in time.
    */
   view(heads: A.Heads): A.Doc<T> | undefined {
     if (!this.isReady()) {
diff --git a/packages/automerge-repo/test/Repo.test.ts b/packages/automerge-repo/test/Repo.test.ts
index 66947b4e..d2459314 100644
--- a/packages/automerge-repo/test/Repo.test.ts
+++ b/packages/automerge-repo/test/Repo.test.ts
@@ -833,8 +833,7 @@ describe("Repo", () => {
     })
 
     it("synchronizes changes from bobRepo to charlieRepo when loading from storage", async () => {
-      const { bobRepo, bobStorage, charlieRepo, aliceHandle, teardown } =
-        await setup()
+      const { bobRepo, bobStorage, teardown } = await setup()
 
       // We create a repo that uses bobStorage to put a document into its imaginary disk
       // without it knowing about it
@@ -846,7 +845,6 @@ describe("Repo", () => {
       })
       await bobRepo2.flush()
 
-      console.log("loading from disk", inStorageHandle.url)
       // Now, let's load it on the original bob repo (which shares a "disk")
       const bobFoundIt = bobRepo.find<TestDoc>(inStorageHandle.url)
       await bobFoundIt.whenReady()
@@ -855,6 +853,8 @@ describe("Repo", () => {
       // (This behaviour is mostly test-validation, we are already testing load/save elsewhere.)
       assert.deepStrictEqual(await bobFoundIt.doc(), { foo: "foundOnFakeDisk" })
 
+      await pause(10)
+
       // We should have a docSynchronizer and its peers should be alice and charlie
       assert.strictEqual(
         bobRepo.synchronizer.docSynchronizers[bobFoundIt.documentId]?.hasPeer(