The Commit Timestamps Told the Real Story

I didn't notice our team was burning out. The commit history did.

It started as an idle observation - I was scrolling through a repo's activity graph looking for something unrelated, and noticed a pattern I hadn't consciously clocked before: commits at 11 PM. Then 1 AM. Then a Sunday afternoon that was supposed to be nobody's problem but somehow was.

Not from one person. From most of the team.

Nobody had said anything was wrong. Standups were