[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.4.1

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

The first maintenance release Git v2.4.1 is now available at the
usual places.

The tarballs are found at:

    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.4.1'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:

  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

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Git v2.4.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.4
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 * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory
   showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the
   directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work.  Also,
   when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"
   and compare the file with the file with the same name in the
   directory, instead of refusing to run.

 * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
   that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email
   entries in it.

 * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost
   the daylight-saving-time offset.

 * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no
   object type that is "bl".

 * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
   that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
   beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
   files already.

 * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a
   slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code
   becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.

 * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
   ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
   the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
   root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
   do, but still valid).

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.

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Changes since v2.4.0 are as follows:

Carlos Martín Nieto (1):
      dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files

Elia Pinto (1):
      test-lib-functions.sh: fix the second argument to some helper functions

Jeff King (5):
      init: don't set core.worktree when initializing /.git
      type_from_string_gently: make sure length matches
      reachable: only mark local objects as recent
      sha1_file: freshen pack objects before loose
      sha1_file: only freshen packs once per run

Junio C Hamano (10):
      diff-no-index: DWIM "diff D F" into "diff D/F F"
      diff-no-index: align D/F handling with that of normal Git
      parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestamp
      parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversion
      add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
      utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
      config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
      attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
      Git 2.3.8
      Git 2.4.1

Matthieu Moy (2):
      Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
      log -L: improve error message on malformed argument

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
      t1509: update prepare script to be able to run t1509 in chroot again

Ossi Herrala (1):
      config: fix settings in default_user_config template

Stefan Beller (2):
      line-log.c: fix a memleak
      pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak