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Olivia Brown

Six hundred and nine commits, and more than half of them landed inside a single eight-day window.

A live product rebuilt with Codus. The average across the project hides the real story: the rebuild was a concentrated burst at roughly forty commits a day, across forty four branches.

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The Olivia Brown product: the live PR operations console showing discovery, outreach and reply-sorting columns tracking named journalists at the Telegraph, BBC News, TechCrunch, WIRED and CNBC, with 21 campaigns running and 911 pitches in flight.
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The run

  1. 10 Apr
    First commit
    The project opens.
  2. 29 May
    The burst begins
    35 commits in a day, after weeks of quiet.
  3. 31 May
    Peak day
    59 commits, the busiest single day in the repository.
  4. 5 Jun
    Burst ends
    320 commits banked in 8 days, 52.5% of the project.
  5. 31 Jul
    Last commit
    112 days from first to last, 54 of them active.

The receipts

320
Commits in the 8-day rebuild burst
git log --since=2026-05-29 --until=2026-06-06
52.5%
Share of the whole project, in those 8 days
320 of 609 commits
59
Commits on the single busiest day
31 May 2026, git log --format=%ad | uniq -c
609
Commits in total
git rev-list --count HEAD
44
Branches
git branch -a
54
Active build days, across a 112-day span
distinct commit dates

Every figure counted from the project’s git history on 2026-08-08. The eight-day window is 29 May to 5 June 2026 inclusive.

Olivia Brown is a live product that was rebuilt with Codus. The headline number is six hundred and nine commits, but the average across the project is the least interesting way to read it, because the work was not spread evenly. It arrived in a burst.

Half the project in eight days

Between 29 May and 5 June, three hundred and twenty commits landed. That is fifty two and a half per cent of everything the repository has ever contained, inside a single eight-day window. The peak day, 31 May, carried fifty nine commits on its own.

For context, the project spans a hundred and twelve days from first commit to last, but only fifty four of those days have any commit at all. The shape is not a steady trickle. It is a long quiet period punctuated by a concentrated rebuild, which is what parallel agents look like in a git history: when the work is running, it runs very fast, and when it is not, nothing moves.

Why the burst is the story

A three and a half month average would put this at roughly five commits a day, which sounds like an ordinary side project. The distribution says something quite different. Forty commits a day sustained across an eight-day rebuild is a throughput a single developer does not reach, and it is the number that actually describes how the work happened.

Forty four branches across the same period tell the parallel half of the story: work proceeding on several fronts at once rather than down a single trunk.

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