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Clarify scope for LFS imports from GitHub

Kaitlyn Chappell requested to merge docs-kmc-lfs-github-scope into master
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What does this MR do?

Clarifies that the read:org scope is also required if your project has LFS files as well as if you want to import collaborators.

If you don't have this scope but you have LFS file the import from GitHub looks like it succeeds but the logs show that it does not and LFS files will not appear in the project, the error in the logs shows a permissions problem:

"exception.message":"The LFS objects download list couldn't be imported. Error: Forbidden"

Related issues

Found in a customer ticket investigation (GitLab internal link): https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/521899

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