Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Document core.excludesfile for git-add
  git-send-email: allow leading white space on mutt aliases

Documentation/git-add.txt

@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ OPTIONS
 	for command-line options).
 
 
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
+$GIT_DIR/info/exclude.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in info/exclude.  See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::

git-send-email.perl

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ my $aliasfiletype = $repo->config('sendemail.aliasfiletype');
 my %parse_alias = (
 	# multiline formats can be supported in the future
 	mutt => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
-		if (/^alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
+		if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
 			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
 			$addr =~ s/#.*$//; # mutt allows # comments
 			 # commas delimit multiple addresses