provided a better description on how to create a git clone and compile xboard

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 <h6>git version</h6>
 
-<p> After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar ball, 
+<p> The <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git repository</a> is available on Savannah. All branches can be viewed there. The web page also provides tar-balls of all tagged versions, these tar-balls are different from the ones that you can download from the <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/"> ftp-server </a> and you will need to run autogen.sh on them as described below.</p>
+
+<p> If you want to get a copy of the repository you can clone it using the command <code>"git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/xboard.git"</code>. For more information on how to use git, please visit the git home page.</p>
+
+<p> After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar-ball from the git repository,
 run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.</p>
 
-<h6>tar-balls</h6>
+<h6>tar-balls (from the ftp-server)</h6>
 <p> Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.</p>
 
-
 <p>For development sources and other information, please see
 the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/">XBoard project
 page</a> at <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</p>
 
-<p>A snapshot of the latest source code for all branches is available at
-the <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git
-repository</a> on Savannah.</p>
-
 <h4>archive</h4>
 
 <p>You can also find an archive of old versions on <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/xboard/">the ftp server</a>.</p>
@@ -348,7 +347,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
 
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