I just updated my installation, bouncing all the daemons and aphlict as part of the process.
When it came back up, a daemon noticed that it somehow had missed an old commit, so it pulled it and inserted it into the feed, triggered herald, etc.
We noticed because we got an email for an old commit. I went back and looked at the feed and that commit was indeed missing earlier.
This is an SVN repo if that's relevant. I have a dump from directly before the update if that's useful.