subdirectories, and allow the multi-hook driver to be
                placed in some other location of your choice

                allow simple test code to be embedded within the
                gitolite.conf file; see contrib/utils/testconf for how.
                (This goes on the client side, not on the server)

                allow syslog "facility" to be changed, from the default of
                'local0'

                allow @group names in config values to be expanded; it is
                replaced with a space separated list of members