Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF

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I noticed today, after unsuccessfully trying GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-U2, that
1) it did not work, 2) the doc in 1.4.4.4 tells about using
"GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c", which does not work either and 3) there is
virtually no more doc about it in HEAD.

It would be useful to document which flags are recognized, and notably
that -u<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.

At the same time, I noticed that GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is not described in
the diff docs either, although it is described in the main git.txt
page (which may not be the place where users would look for it - at
least, only my grep aiming to be accurate before composing this mail
finally found it).

Best regards,
-- 
Yann.
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