Packages are different. For npm, you might publish your source 1:1 if you have a very vanilla setup, but a typical package in npm contains a built version of t

Packages are different. For npm, you might publish your source 1:1 if you have a very vanilla setup, but a typical package in npm contains a built version of the code while the repo contains source, documentation, tooling, etc. Package versions are also created explicitly and tend to contain many changes, whereas repos are commit/branch based.