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hgwebdir: reduce memory usage for index generation

The archive list generator was holding a reference to each
temporary ui copy passed by rawentries(), so the memory
usage for index generation growed proportionally to the
ui object size and the amount of repositories. By returning a
list instead, the temporary reference is dropped immediately.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.