Get rid of refreshing cache after "git commit"?

Hi,

The current "git commit" refreshes cache and writes out after a commit. I dug back in history to see how it was introduced. It looks like from the very first days of "git commit", which was git-commit-script at that time, git-update-cache was called on specified paths, until commit 22cff6a (git-commit: pass explicit path to git-diff-files. - 2005-08-16) started to do "git-update-cache -q --refresh" without paths and the tradition keeps going until today.

Nowadays almost (all?) porcelain commands silently refresh index before doing anything relating to worktree, I wonder if this tradition is still necessary. On (again) gentoo-x86 repository, taking out the refresh part could cut down about 1 sec on total 3 secs from "git commit -m foo".