From: David Turner Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:35:56 GMT Subject: Why does git checkout -b touch the index? Message-ID: <1476455756.32360.2.camel@frank> 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)