Wait, is he just changing version numbers? Suddenly he goes from most committed programmer ever to most...frivolous?
Thank goodness for frivolous work like this.
Ahem... robots?
It shouldn't require any human intervention to watch for changes and bump a version number. In fact, I guess, it didn't. Personally, I'd tolerate repetitive work for several days, maybe even a week, then I'd certainly hack a script and after several days of observation return only on script's "hey, I'm confused, please help me" notification.
- laziness - impatience - hubris
It's still busywork, but that would at least be legitimate. :)
If there are no tests and he tests manually, then there's some commits waiting that will improve the project. :-)