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mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis 

Without having first read the git-shortlog man-page, the format
of .mailmap may not be immediately obvious. Add comments with pointers
to the man-page, along with other details.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202008080013.58EBD83@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Kees Cook 2020-08-08 00:14:36 -07:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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# This list is used by git-shortlog to fix a few botched name translations
# in the git archive, either because the author's full name was messed up
# and/or not always written the same way, making contributions from the
# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed.
# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. Also allows for
# old email addresses to map to new email addresses.
#
# For format details, see "MAPPING AUTHORS" in "man git-shortlog".
#
# Please keep this list dictionary sorted.
#
# This comment is parsed by git-shortlog:
# repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
#
Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Adam Oldham <oldhamca@gmail.com>
Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>