Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Sure, but wouldn't that similarly apply to fetching? What is it that > makes bursts of pushes more likely than bursts of fetches? Because people tend to use a repository as a gathering point? You may periodically fetch from and push to a repository, and you may even do so at the same interval, but simply because there are more "other" people than you alone as a single developer in the project, your fetch tends to grab work from more people than yoru push that publish your work alone?