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Add repo_mapping to documentation

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#10,410 opened on Dec 13, 2019

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Description

Description of the problem / feature request:

An important attribute, repo_mapping, is not listed in the documentation.

https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/repo/http.html

I only found out about this through a github issue: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3219

This should really be listed in the repository documentation for http_archive. It would have saved me a huge headache, and prevented issues created like the one listed above.

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Identify where repo mapping is missing in the http archive documentation and add it with a description.
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