RewriteBase /<insert web base url here>
+# hide git directory (and others)
+RedirectMatch 404 \.(git|cvs|svn|bzr|hg)(/.*|$)
+
# make the url nice and clean; the comments shows an url that should be matched
# web_base/page/4
RewriteRule page/([0-9]*) index.php?page=$1 [L]
+
</IfModule>