diff --git a/dev-vcs/tig/Manifest b/dev-vcs/tig/Manifest
index 5aada0288eab2..62004a3f83d85 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/tig/Manifest
+++ b/dev-vcs/tig/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ DIST tig-2.5.10.tar.gz 1183631 BLAKE2B a2d58e9a79bf7fdabf74704a04f2d0dee30e8fd34
 DIST tig-2.5.12.tar.gz 1190652 BLAKE2B a4abbe97e057c3e658bfafcd4caa186c56ca1a0e51802d1239a58fb0ebd2f6d7786f18dbc74d8888fe9fedb7f8e041872a327c50151e22cd008b4390617a6716 SHA512 b4960f7fcc77469e3941913f2b7cc2b8f13d96db931d73b62d7542f4eaabe792d2b43604f0b5043f910ef50063140982cc6be22b156ced184fc0f20704efd6cd
 DIST tig-2.5.8.tar.gz 1179844 BLAKE2B eff20358443bd794de2985e1c76db8be25f4461ac82182a72004ab380156c15c5ed27dc1c66fb347b1f3d1ccddcead0a031638762e48f7e88a3b0593a278d3d7 SHA512 f4e7648ae7c58e936251f69071a092617368a04eabb4ae6726b2de1dbd305c559b7235f7aa70868f4ada02611196593a6e1c241062f57cd05a9c98685385053e
 DIST tig-2.6.0.tar.gz 1196658 BLAKE2B 14734c886be092c556cb0df5d52be76f4d865fad21e13db5fd57d9e115e2306803536109cc1382e87c40afd8fb87e36855b81f049f43f3f67f62e64e68c1db45 SHA512 143b78db02b1062f3f75f538dda973b4a618ef6eec5abbbecf0c3056b040564f2c8a072b1ad556dc52755f40fd9d57560a0e7dbe21a10fb5a7ac727d1559e504
+DIST tig-2.6.1.tar.gz 1200780 BLAKE2B 2b010a77af42ee3a148ac685567c39aaecdf6c6972666d5c615b8eb39f0ef73a5c0341006083224ef19d8683dec336e74293e32b68fe4bb6d4b81bce40b5735f SHA512 685fe0a5b6db87c3bab7914e47b43ad1c677f84ca1e86a0f9c9e6a86b5b338a9195901d2e07d9031f7cd6da241a238b000447e5e864d816a228847db63534c3e
diff --git a/dev-vcs/tig/tig-2.6.1.ebuild b/dev-vcs/tig/tig-2.6.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e92c67347eb1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-vcs/tig/tig-2.6.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit shell-completion
+
+if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/jonas/tig.git"
+	inherit git-r3 autotools
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/${P}/${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos"
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="text mode interface for git"
+HOMEPAGE="https://jonas.github.io/tig/"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="pcre test unicode"
+REQUIRED_USE="test? ( unicode )"
+
+DEPEND="
+	sys-libs/ncurses:=[unicode(+)?]
+	sys-libs/readline:0=
+	pcre? ( dev-libs/libpcre2:= )
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	dev-vcs/git
+"
+[[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] && BDEPEND+=" app-text/asciidoc app-text/xmlto"
+
+# encoding/env issues
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	[[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] && eautoreconf
+	sed -i -e "s:e=.*:e=$(get_bashcompdir)/${PN}:" contrib/tig-completion.zsh || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_with pcre) \
+		$(use_with unicode ncursesw)
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake V=1
+	[[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] && emake V=1 doc-man doc-html
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# workaround parallel test failures
+	LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 emake -j1 test
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install install-doc-man
+	dodoc {doc/manual,README,NEWS}.{adoc,html}
+	newbashcomp contrib/tig-completion.bash ${PN}
+	newzshcomp contrib/tig-completion.zsh _${PN}
+
+	docinto examples
+	dodoc contrib/*.tigrc
+}