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> [group mygroup]
> members = Bob Carol Ted Alice
> writable = base cover pot lid
>
> Is the following allowable?
>
> [group new group]
> members = Bob Carol Ted
> members = Alice
> writable = base
> cover
> pot
> lid

Gitosis is written in Python and uses the ConfigParser[1] module.
It allows line continuations in the style of RFC 822, see [2]:

foo = bar
       baz
       qux


Hope this helps,
John

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822.html#section-3.1.1