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diff --git a/tg.sh b/tg.sh
index 1762f03..6282250 100644
--- a/tg.sh
+++ b/tg.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # (c) Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>  2008
 # GPLv2
 
+TG_VERSION=0.6
 
 ## Auxiliary functions
 
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@ do_help()
 			sep="|"
 		done
 
-		echo "TopGit v0.5 - A different patch queue manager"
+		echo "TopGit v$TG_VERSION - A different patch queue manager"
 		echo "Usage: tg [-r REMOTE] ($cmds|help) ..."
 	elif [ -r "@cmddir@"/tg-$1 ] ; then
 		@cmddir@/tg-$1 -h || :
@@ -264,6 +265,29 @@ do_help()
 	fi
 }
 
+# Check whether we are supposed to output the help message
+should_do_help()
+{
+	# we are being sourced for utility functions, never run help
+	[ -z "$tg__include" ] || return 1
+
+	local prev
+	while [ -n "$1" ]; do
+		case "$1" in
+		help|--help|-h)
+			shift
+			echo "${1:-$prev}"
+			return 0
+		esac
+		prev="$1"
+		shift
+	done
+
+	# run help when there was no previous topic, meaning that there where
+	# no arguments at all
+	test -z "$prev"
+}
+
 ## Pager stuff
 
 # isatty FD
@@ -308,6 +332,9 @@ setup_pager()
 [ -d "@cmddir@" ] ||
 	die "No command directory: '@cmddir@'"
 
+# check if we should run help and get the topic while we're at it
+help_topic="$(should_do_help "$@")" && { do_help "$help_topic"; exit 0; }
+
 ## Initial setup
 
 set -e
@@ -343,9 +370,6 @@ cmd="$1"
 shift
 
 case "$cmd" in
-help|--help|-h)
-	do_help "$1"
-	exit 0;;
 --hooks-path)
 	# Internal command
 	echo "@hooksdir@";;