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eol: document why os.utime doesn't work here

I wanted to use

  os.utime(self.join("eol.cache"), None)

as a cleaner way of touching the cache file -- but this fails when the
cache doesn't exist.

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.