Re: [2.22.0] difftool no longer passes through to git diff if diff.tool is unset

> Well, it _is_ true that you can use it the same way. It's just that you > need to configure it to use whatever 3rd-party tool you want (and if you > do not want to configure a tool, then you are better off just using > git-diff directly). It was only due to a bug/historical accident that it > beh

Re: [2.22.0] difftool no longer passes through to git diff if diff.tool is unset

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:45:17PM -0400, Denton Liu wrote: > >> Using the following command on git.git, >> >> $ HOME=/dev/null ./git --exec-path=. difftool --no-index color.c color.h >> >> I did a quick bisect on the issue and it seems like the cause of this >> bug is actually 287ab28bfa

[2.22.0] difftool no longer passes through to git diff if diff.tool is unset

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$ g