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--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote
'`"`' and backslash have to be escaped as '`\"`' and '`\\`',
-respecitvely) and are case sensitive. Section header cannot span multiple
+respectively) and are case sensitive. Section header cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.
spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them.
+ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
+ it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
+ "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
+ "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
+ "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".
+
apply.whitespace::
Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1].