diff --git a/scripts/lib/publishing.ts b/scripts/lib/publishing.ts
index 6dbb3b186..9d1cc1d77 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/publishing.ts
+++ b/scripts/lib/publishing.ts
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ export async function publish(distTag?: string) {
 				}
 			},
 			{
-				delay: 3000,
-				numAttempts: 10,
+				delay: 4000,
+				numAttempts: 20,
 			}
 		)
 	}
diff --git a/scripts/publish-patch.ts b/scripts/publish-patch.ts
index 69f120169..96f7e5710 100644
--- a/scripts/publish-patch.ts
+++ b/scripts/publish-patch.ts
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ async function main() {
 	}
 
 	// we could probably do this a lot earlier in the yml file but 🤷‍♂️
+	await exec('git', ['fetch', 'origin', 'main'])
 	const numberOfCommitsSinceBranch = Number(
-		(await exec('git', ['rev-list', '--count', `HEAD`, '^main'])).toString().trim()
+		(await exec('git', ['rev-list', '--count', `HEAD`, '^origin/main'])).toString().trim()
 	)
 
 	if (numberOfCommitsSinceBranch === 0) {