Twelfth batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt

@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to
    optionally include all of them.
 
+ * The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated
+   object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not
+   affected by the --abbrev option.  Now it is.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -113,6 +117,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the
    normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file..
 
+ * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to
+   execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo"
+   form, which have been corrected.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.28
 -----------------
@@ -224,6 +232,37 @@ Fixes since v2.28
    marker like whitespaces.
    (merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint).
 
+ * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work
+   well with transfer.fsckobjects set.
+
+ * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when
+   parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and
+   "trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has
+   been corrected.
+   (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the
+   index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards.
+   (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint).
+
+ * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec
+   mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help"
+   has been updated.
+   (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and
+   running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start
+   digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like
+   "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does.
+   (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized.
+   (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
    (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).