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If I do this:

alias g='git'

I loose all completion rules (i.e. branches and remotes are no longer being automatically completed when I hit TAB after typing, for example g push o).

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While I don't have an answer for you, I'm going to have to take a minute and wonder if not typing those two other letters is really giving you much of an advantage? – Marco Ceppi♦ Sep 19 '11 at 13:17
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Sure it does! I'm typing 'g' probably over a 100 times a day. – Paweł Gościcki Sep 19 '11 at 13:29
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Aliasing often-used short commands to even shorter aliases saves me hundreds of keypresses a day. According to my shell history, I have used the alias g=git 756 times in the past month, meaning I saved pressing the 'g' and 'i' keys 1512 times total. That, combined with my git aliases, probably saves me tens of thousands of key presses a month. – Evan Teitelman Dec 12 '12 at 1:56

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Copying and modifying opportunely from /etc/bash_completion.d/git, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc:

complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _git g 2>/dev/null \
    || complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g
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Ha! Wunderbar! Works just like it should :) – Paweł Gościcki Sep 19 '11 at 13:32

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