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-Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager
-for output from various git commands.
-When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to
-present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log
-and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
-Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
+Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git.
+It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist
+in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for
+output from various Git commands.