The maintainer jackton1's response to this is extremely shady. He tries to prove his innocence by showing that renovate bot changed the author of the malicious commit but I'm betting he's behind the whole thing.
Why are boomers so stubborn and adamant about things they form opinions of and won't change their mind, even when they're wrong? Is it a lack of intelligence? Or too much pride? Both?
I use git like that. It's my backup solution. There's no logic to the commits. I just commit and push when I feel I've done enough that it would suck if my computer fails and I lose it.
I've done that when testing CI pipelines or pushing up minor tweaks to a personal project... but committing and pushing so often.. maybe OP was editing right in GitHub?
I was developing on one remote machine and running/testing it another machine. This is just a fun little learning/diversion project... I don't really care about it having a meticulous git commit history.