I noticed just now that the linux2 bot was building a version of the "incoming" branch that had 4 more revisions that were newer than it. For branches like incoming that don't get pushed to with -f, the bot should pick the newest one first (or only build the newest one).
This might require a way to configure rustbot to know which branches may have had force pushes (and obviously that depends on people with commit access to not do a mistaken force-push, too...)