Meh. That seems sensible to me, I guess, if it's something that the developer will guarantee won't change anything (eg. a typo in a translated string). I think "automatically" generated commits like this should clearly be marked as such so if something does go wrong, it's possible to place the blame.
Back in days of yore, we decided to ship and updated the copyright string in the .text section of the product binary - from "Copyright 1989 SMI" to "Copyright 1991, Sun Microsystems", which subsequently changed the alignment of other sections and led to a 10% performance penalty (fixed by regenerating the order file.)
I've never thought there was such a thing as safe fix ever since...
As a self diagnosed Aspie, I can't tell if this article or your comment are April 1st jokes. Which I guess is kind of the point of April 1st jokes.