Add a git .mailmap file to dedupe authors. [LUCENE-7608]

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Migrated from LUCENE-7608 by Mark Miller (@markrmiller), updated Dec 30 2016
Attachments: .mailmap (versions: 2)

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Adrien Grand (@jpountz) (migrated from JIRA)

+1

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David Smiley (@dsmiley) (migrated from JIRA)

How is this used?

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Mark Miller (@markrmiller) (migrated from JIRA)

https://www.google.com/search?q=git+mailmap

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Mark Miller (@markrmiller) (migrated from JIRA)

I have another check to do, but I think that covers the issues I see.

Placed in the git checkout root folder.

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Mark Miller (@markrmiller) (migrated from JIRA)

Also, I generally favored using the most recent username as the canonical name. Individuals can change this for themselves if they want something else.

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David Smiley (@dsmiley) (migrated from JIRA)

LOL of course; thanks ;-)

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Mike Drob (@madrob) (migrated from JIRA)

Neat feature! I think you missed a mike@elastic.co and nknize@apache.org.

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Mark Miller (@markrmiller) (migrated from JIRA)

Yeah, sorry, I've only done Solr so far, I still have to get Lucene.

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Mark Miller (@markrmiller) (migrated from JIRA)

It's not something I really knew about, I was just trying to address the dupe author issue with a tool and the tool FAQ said, git has a feature for this already.