Why does git checkout -b touch the index?

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Subject: Why does git checkout -b touch the index?
From: David Turner <novalis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:35:56 -0400

If I do "git checkout -b fleem", with no additional flags, why does it
need to rewrite the index?  Or even read the index? 

(this is kind of a bug report, I guess, but it's a pretty minor bug that
I only noticed because I was out of hard drive space)

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