Hi Logan,

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:54:22PM +0000, Pugh, Logan wrote:
> Note: This issue was originally discussed on this StackOverflow thread: 
> https://stackoverflow.com/q/56675863
> 
> Prior to Git version 2.22.0 I was able to use git difftool without 
> configuring diff.tool or merge.tool and it would show the diff using git diff.
> 
> E.g. with Git 2.21.0:
> 
> ~/gits/src/git$ git difftool --no-index color.c color.h
> diff --git a/color.c b/color.h
> index ebb222ec33..98894d6a17 100644
> 
> In Git version 2.22.0 an error message about diff.tool not being configured 
> is displayed:
> 
> ~/gits/src/git$ git difftool --no-index color.c color.h
> 
> This message is displayed because 'diff.tool' is not configured.
> See 'git difftool --tool-help' or 'git help config' for more details.
> 'git difftool' will now attempt to use one of the following tools:
> kompare emerge vimdiff
> 
> The following commit is thought to have caused the regression: 
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/05fb8726cccc74908853c166248ff9b6abdafae5
> 
> Please let me know if I can provide any more info.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Logan

Thanks for the report. I'll take a look at this later today.

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