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[PATCH v2 5/5] Remove outdated info in difftool manpage

From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2017, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20170303134043.GA6281@arch-attack.localdomain>

When difftool was rewritten in C, it removed the capability to read fallback configs from mergetool. This changes the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-difftool.txt | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 96c26e6aa..a00cb033e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -105,9 +105,6 @@ See linkgit:git-diff[1] for the full list of supported options.
 
 CONFIG VARIABLES
 ----------------
-'git difftool' falls back to 'git mergetool' config variables when the
-difftool equivalents have not been defined.
-
 diff.tool::
 	The default diff tool to use.
 
-- 
2.12.0.5.gfbc750a84
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  1. 5/5 Remove outdated info in difftool manpageDenton Liu, Mar 3, 2017

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