.SH "CONFIGURATION FILE"
-The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git commands behavior\&. They can be used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains\&. The variables are divided to sections, where in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last dot\-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot\&. The variable names are case\-insensitive and only alphanumeric characters are allowed\&. Some variables may appear multiple times\&.
+The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior\&. They can be used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains\&. The variables are divided into sections, where in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last dot\-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot\&. The variable names are case\-insensitive and only alphanumeric characters are allowed\&. Some variables may appear multiple times\&.
-The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored\&. The \fI#\fR and \fI;\fR characters begin commends to the end of line, blank lines are ignored, lines containing strings enclosed in square brackets start sections and all the other lines are recognized as setting variables, in the form \fIname = value\fR\&. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line is taken as \fIname\fR and the variable is recognized as boolean "true"\&. String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes; some variables may require special value format\&.
+The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored\&. The \fI#\fR and \fI;\fR characters begin comments to the end of line, blank lines are ignored, lines containing strings enclosed in square brackets start sections and all the other lines are recognized as setting variables, in the form \fIname = value\fR\&. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line is taken as \fIname\fR and the variable is recognized as boolean "true"\&. String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes; some variables may require special value format\&.
.SS "Example"
.SS "Variables"
-Note that this list is non\-comprehensive and not necessarily complete\&. For command\-specific variables, you will find more detailed description in the appropriate manual page\&. You will find description of non\-core porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation\&.
+Note that this list is non\-comprehensive and not necessarily complete\&. For command\-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description in the appropriate manual page\&. You will find a description of non\-core porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation\&.
.TP
core\&.fileMode
core\&.gitProxy
A "proxy command" to execute (as \fIcommand host port\fR) instead of establishing direct connection to the remote server when using the git protocol for fetching\&. If the variable value is in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only on hostnames ending with the specified domain string\&. This variable may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; the first match wins\&.
-.nf
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable
-(which always applies universally, without the special "for"
-handling)\&.
-.fi
+Can be overridden by the \fIGIT_PROXY_COMMAND\fR environment variable (which always applies universally, without the special "for" handling)\&.
.TP
core\&.ignoreStat
.TP
alias\&.*
-Command aliases for the \fBgit\fR(1) command wrapper \- e\&.g\&. after defining "alias\&.last = cat\-file commit HEAD", the invocation "git last" is equivalent to "git cat\-file commit HEAD"\&. To avoid confusion, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored\&. Arguments are split at whitespaces, but single or double quote pair can be used to quote them\&.
+Command aliases for the \fBgit\fR(1) command wrapper \- e\&.g\&. after defining "alias\&.last = cat\-file commit HEAD", the invocation "git last" is equivalent to "git cat\-file commit HEAD"\&. To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored\&. Arguments are split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported\&. quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them\&.
.TP
apply\&.whitespace
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