Not really? Every single maintainer / owner of a repository can do that. The only thing stopping them is protecting a branch. And even that isn’t a thing in git, it’s just something that providers like github or gitlab did to prevent people accidentally pushing to main like that. So they got maintainer access and that’s the entire story?
“could” doesn’t mean “did”?
True. But there’s zero reason to give permissions that reckless unless you plan on using them.
Not really? Every single maintainer / owner of a repository can do that. The only thing stopping them is protecting a branch. And even that isn’t a thing in git, it’s just something that providers like github or gitlab did to prevent people accidentally pushing to main like that. So they got maintainer access and that’s the entire story?
Josh Marshall, the reporter from Talking Points Memo asserted that he did push changes.
Does he provide sources or a way to confirm what he says? I’d like to find out exactly what is known and what is the status of that code base.