diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93c77d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+kind: pipeline
+type: docker
+name: default
+
+steps:
+# note zest does everything, including tagging!
+- name: version-tag-changelog
+  image: python:3-bookworm
+  commands:
+  - pip install --no-cache-dir zest.releaser
+  - fullrelease --no-input
+  when:
+    branch:
+    - master
+
+- name: git-push
+  image: appleboy/drone-git-push
+  settings:
+    ssh_key:
+      from_secret: github_ssh_key
+    remote: ssh://git@github.com/${DRONE_REPO}.git
+    force: false
+    followtags: true
+  when:
+    branch:
+    - master
+
+- name: build
+  image: python:3-alpine
+  commands:
+  #- python -m pip install --upgrade build
+  - pip --no-cache-dir install build
+  - python -m build
+  # alternatively, using pipx instead of pip:
+  #- pipx install build
+  #- pyproject-build
+  when:
+    event: tag
+
+- name: github-release
+  image: plugins/github-release
+  settings:
+    api_key:
+      from_secret: github_token
+    files:
+      - dist/*
+    title: "${DRONE_TAG}"
+    #note: CHANGELOG.md
+    checksum:
+       - sha256
+  when:
+    event: tag
+
+- name: pypi-publish
+  image: plugins/pypi
+  settings:
+    username:
+      from_secret: public_pypi_username
+    password:
+      from_secret: public_pypi_password
+    skip_build: true
+    distributions:
+    - sdist
+    - bdist_wheel
+  when:
+    event: tag
+
+trigger:
+  ref:
+  - refs/heads/master
+  #- refs/heads/develop
+  - refs/heads/feature/*
+  - refs/tags/*
+
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6719d0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+## 0.0.1 (unreleased)
+
+
+- first release of our fork
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 22809ad..c7d8e0c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-**Git playback** is a `git` command to play back or step through, commit by commit, the history of any git-controlled file. Its name was inspired by [mmozuras/git-playback](https://github.com/mmozuras/git-playback).
+**Git playback** is a `git` command to play back or step through, commit by commit,
+the history of any git-controlled file.
+
+Note this is a fork of [jianli/git-playback](https://github.com/jianli/git-playback)
+that hasn't been updated since 2016.
+
 
 ## Installation
 ```sh
-pip install git-playback
+pipx install git-playback-ng
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -12,7 +17,7 @@ cd ~/repo/
 git playback path/to/file.py
 ```
 
-![git playback README.md](https://raw.github.com/jianli/git-playback/master/animation.gif "git playback README.md")
+![git playback README.md](https://raw.github.com/laur89/git-playback-ng/master/animation.gif "git playback README.md")
 
 and then press the following keys to navigate:
 * `r`ewind
diff --git a/playback/__init__.py b/playback/__init__.py
index 8f4b94f..4717678 100755
--- a/playback/__init__.py
+++ b/playback/__init__.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def function(window):
     curses.init_pair(1, curses.COLOR_RED, -1)
     curses.init_pair(2, curses.COLOR_GREEN, -1)
 
-    repo = git.Repo(os.getcwd())
+    repo = git.Repo(os.getcwd(), search_parent_directories=True)
     top_level = repo.git.rev_parse(show_toplevel=True)
     file_path = os.path.relpath(
         os.path.join(os.getcwd(), sys.argv[1]), top_level)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def function(window):
     rewinding = False
     diff = []
 
-    while 1:
+    while True:
         # get keyboard input
         window.nodelay(1)  # don't wait for input
         key = window.getch()
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef30580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[zest.releaser]
+extra-message = [CI SKIP]
+# do not push to git remote:
+push-changes = false
+# do not release to pypi:
+release = false
+history_format = md
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9ad4985..08d1fd6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-from setuptools import find_packages
-from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 
 setup(
-    name='git-playback',
-    version='0.1.1',
-    url='https://github.com/jianli/git-playback',
+    name='git-playback-ng',
+    version='0.0.1.dev0',
+    url='https://github.com/laur89/git-playback-ng',
     description='A git command to play back file history.',
     packages=find_packages('.'),
     entry_points={
@@ -14,6 +13,6 @@
         ),
     },
     install_requires=[
-        'gitpython>=0.3.2.RC1',
+        'GitPython',
     ],
 )