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@@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ color::
`reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the
second is the background. The position of the attribute, if
any, doesn't matter.
++
+The attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item
+in the colored output, so setting color.decorate.branch to `black`
+will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous
+thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
+list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be
+painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
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