Why does “git difftool” not open the tool directly?

Question

I configured git like this:

git config --global diff.tool meld

When I run:

git difftool

I g

Answer 1

man git-difftool

OPTIONS
   -y, --no-prompt
       Do not prompt before launching a diff tool.

Answer 2

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