[mccutchen]

The big downside of these (for me) is that they don't let me use the great bash completion that git (optionally) provides.

[sanderjd]

They can!

  # Make git completion work with aliases
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_checkout gco
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_rebase grb
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_branch gbdf
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_branch gbd
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_diff gd
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_log gl
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_log glp