A fetch + rebase right before sending is always a good idea, it avoids
this kind of accidental spam and it'll make sure you notice conflicts
introduced by patches from other people.

Also, I don't think the patches hit the repo 13 hours ago. I fetched
this afternoon, and they weren't there yet. I'm not sure how it works
exactly, but I think the commit time is when AJ accepts the patches
into his repo, not when he pushes his repo to the server. Between that
is a lot of automated compiling and testing if I understand it right.