diff --git a/doc/tigrc.5.adoc b/doc/tigrc.5.adoc
index 87c1c466d..630e8f628 100644
--- a/doc/tigrc.5.adoc
+++ b/doc/tigrc.5.adoc
@@ -360,6 +360,14 @@ The following variables can be set:
 	Mouse support requires that ncurses itself support mouse events and that
 	you have enabled mouse support in ~/.tigrc with `set mouse = true`.
 
+'pgrp' (bool)::
+
+	Make tig process-group leader when starting and clean all processes
+	when exiting. Off by default. Do not enable this option if you are
+	using a Zsh version affected by zsh-workers/43379. Run `xclip` with
+	`setsid` to keep clipboard content after exiting tig. If you are using
+	git-credential-cache helper, set option `credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP`.
+
 'start-on-head' (bool)::
 
 	Start with cursor on HEAD commit.
diff --git a/include/tig/options.h b/include/tig/options.h
index c43f4b877..4636e51a6 100644
--- a/include/tig/options.h
+++ b/include/tig/options.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ typedef struct view_column *view_settings;
 	_(mouse_scroll,			int,			VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
 	_(mouse_wheel_cursor,		bool,			VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
 	_(pager_view,			view_settings,		VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
+	_(pgrp,				bool,			VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
 	_(reference_format,		struct ref_format **,	VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
 	_(refresh_interval,		int,			VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
 	_(refresh_mode,			enum refresh_mode,	VIEW_NO_FLAGS) \
diff --git a/src/display.c b/src/display.c
index a23d41a8c..2b742c158 100644
--- a/src/display.c
+++ b/src/display.c
@@ -573,9 +573,11 @@ done_display(void)
 		free(opt_tty.attr);
 		opt_tty.attr = NULL;
 	}
-	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
-	tcsetpgrp(opt_tty.fd, opt_tty.opgrp);
-	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL);
+	if (opt_tty.opgrp != -1) {
+		signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
+		tcsetpgrp(opt_tty.fd, opt_tty.opgrp);
+		signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL);
+	}
 }
 
 static void
@@ -603,12 +605,14 @@ init_tty(void)
 		die("Failed allocation for tty attributes");
 	tcgetattr(opt_tty.fd, opt_tty.attr);
 
-	/* process-group leader */
-	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
-	setpgid(getpid(), getpid());
-	opt_tty.opgrp = tcgetpgrp(opt_tty.fd);
-	tcsetpgrp(opt_tty.fd, getpid());
-	signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL);
+	if (opt_pgrp) {
+		/* process-group leader */
+		setpgid(getpid(), getpid());
+		opt_tty.opgrp = tcgetpgrp(opt_tty.fd);
+		signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN);
+		tcsetpgrp(opt_tty.fd, getpid());
+		signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL);
+	}
 
 	die_callback = done_display;
 }
diff --git a/src/tig.c b/src/tig.c
index 44ad49de4..eedbf7906 100644
--- a/src/tig.c
+++ b/src/tig.c
@@ -807,10 +807,6 @@ main(int argc, const char *argv[])
 	enum request request = parse_options(argc, argv, pager_mode);
 	struct view *view;
 
-	init_tty();
-
-	atexit(hangup_children);
-
 	if (signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR)
 		die("Failed to setup signal handler");
 
@@ -831,6 +827,11 @@ main(int argc, const char *argv[])
 	die_if_failed(load_options(), "Failed to load user config.");
 	die_if_failed(load_git_config(), "Failed to load repo config.");
 
+	init_tty();
+
+	if (opt_pgrp)
+		atexit(hangup_children);
+
 	prompt_init();
 
 	/* Require a git repository unless when running in pager mode. */
diff --git a/tigrc b/tigrc
index 5f03b3b7a..a54499095 100644
--- a/tigrc
+++ b/tigrc
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ set history-size		= 500		# Size of persistent history, 0 to disable
 set mouse			= no		# Enable mouse support?
 set mouse-scroll		= 3		# Number of lines to scroll via the mouse
 set mouse-wheel-cursor		= no		# Prefer moving the cursor to scrolling the view?
+set pgrp			= no		# Make tig process-group leader
 
 # User-defined commands
 # ---------------------