No it’s fine, lots of hosts depend on plugins being stored in git this way and it isn’t an issue.
You can replicate the process by manually updating a file locally to test. Plugin authors tend to store a database version field, and update if it’s mismatched, or they rely on functions such as dbdelta which auto-update table schema
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