Why does "git difftool" not open the tool directly?

git diff difftool

Misha Moroshko · Oct 26, 2011 · Viewed 36.8k times · Source

I configured git like this:

git config --global diff.tool meld

When I run:

git difftool

I get the following message:

Viewing: 'hello.txt'
Hit return to launch 'meld':

Then, if I press Enter, meld will launch.

How can I disable this message, so that meld will be launched straight away after typing git difftool?

Answer

There's also an option:

difftool.prompt
  Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.

The following command turns off the prompt globally (for all repos):

git config --global difftool.prompt false

Which is like writing in ~/.gitconfig:
(or in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\.gitconfig)

[difftool]
  prompt = false