This required compromising the entire repository, yes? It can't be explained as the maintainer being tricked into merging something malicious?
The [malicious commit is masquerading as a commit from Renovate](https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/commit/0e58ed867...)((https://github.com/apps/renovate) but it's not a `verified` commit (and so it's trivial for a bad actor to masquerade as them).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67609381/why-do-all-my-g...
This required compromising the entire repository, yes? It can't be explained as the maintainer being tricked into merging something malicious?