> i can still review and apply patches from my local inbox
`git fetch` gets me all the code from open PRs. And comments are already in email. Now I'm thinking if I should put `git fetch` in crontab.
> retransmit logic is built in so that the user can still fire off the patch and go outside
You can do that with a couple lines of bash, but I bet someone's already made a prettier script to retry an arbitrary non-interactive command like `git push`? This works best if your computer stays on while you go outside, but this is often the case even with a laptop, and even more so if you use a beefy remote server for development.