# \[PATCH v2 5/5\] Remove outdated info in difftool manpage

- From: Denton Liu \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-03-03 19:20:16 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2017/03/7709402
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2017/03/7709402/t.md

```text
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 <redacted>
---
 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

```