README.git: Document cloning of official site and Savannah mirror.

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FreeType's official repository site is
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype ,
from which the 'freetype.git' and 'freetype-demos.git' repositories
can be cloned in the usual way.
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype.git
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-demos.git
If you want to use the Savannah mirror instead, you have to do a
slightly different incantation because the repository names contain
digit '2' for historical reasons.
git clone \
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/freetype/freetype2.git \
freetype
git clone \
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/freetype/freetype2-demos.git \
freetype-demos
The git archive doesn't contain pre-built configuration scripts for
UNIXish platforms. To generate them say