mailmap: Add a comment explaining this file.

In particular, link to upstream documentation.  This should help
contributors be able to see what it's doing and how to update it.

Copied straight from what we have in the zulip-mobile repo.
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# This file teaches `git log` and friends the canonical names
# and email addresses to use for our contributors.
#
# For details on the format, see:
# https://git.github.io/htmldocs/gitmailmap.html
#
# Handy commands for examining or adding to this file:
#
# # shows all names/emails after mapping, sorted:
# $ git shortlog -es | sort -k2
#
# # shows raw names/emails, filtered by mapped name:
# $ git log --format='%an %ae' --author=$NAME | uniq -c
Alex Vandiver <alexmv@zulip.com> <alex@chmrr.net>
Alex Vandiver <alexmv@zulip.com> <github@chmrr.net>
Allen Rabinovich <allenrabinovich@yahoo.com> <allenr@humbughq.com>