git-mailinfo:tldr:728d2
git-mailinfo: Extract but remove leading and trailing whitespace.
$ git mailinfo -k ${select}
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The git mailinfo command is used to extract patch and authorship information from an email message. Specifically, the -k option of the git mailinfo command is used to specify a selection pattern that will be used to match specific patches in the email message. In the command provided, ${select} is likely a placeholder for the actual selection pattern that you would provide when running the command. For example, if you want to select patches that have a specific subject line, you could replace ${select} with a pattern that matches the desired subject line, such as -s "Bug fix". The command with the placeholder expanded could look like this: ```
git mailinfo -k "-s 'Bug fix'"
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