diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 5337ae4ce2..0734debc11 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1462,12 +1462,19 @@ _git_bisect ()
 	# more usual bad/new/good/old because git bisect gives a good error
 	# message if these are given when not in use, and that's better than
 	# silent refusal to complete if the user is confused.
-	local subcommands="start bad new $term_bad good old $term_good terms skip reset visualize replay log run help"
-	local subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands")"
+	#
+	# We want to recognize 'view' but not complete it, because it overlaps
+	# with 'visualize' too much and is just an alias for it.
+	#
+	local completable_subcommands="start bad new $term_bad good old $term_good terms skip reset visualize replay log run help"
+	local all_subcommands="$completable_subcommands view"
+
+	local subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$all_subcommands")"
+
 	if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then
 		__git_find_repo_path
 		if [ -f "$__git_repo_path"/BISECT_START ]; then
-			__gitcomp "$subcommands"
+			__gitcomp "$completable_subcommands"
 		else
 			__gitcomp "replay start"
 		fi
@@ -1490,7 +1497,7 @@ _git_bisect ()
 		__gitcomp "--term-good --term-old --term-bad --term-new"
 		return
 		;;
-	visualize)
+	visualize|view)
 		__git_complete_log_opts
 		return
 		;;
diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh
index b989388e7e..70557eb684 100755
--- a/t/t9902-completion.sh
+++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh
@@ -1376,6 +1376,30 @@ test_expect_success 'git-bisect - git-log options to visualize subcommand are ca
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'git-bisect - view subcommand is not a candidate' '
+	(
+		cd git-bisect &&
+		test_completion "git bisect vi" <<-\EOF
+		visualize Z
+		EOF
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'git-bisect - existing view subcommand is recognized and enables completion of git-log options' '
+	(
+		cd git-bisect &&
+		# The completion used for git-log and here does not complete
+		# every git-log option, so rather than hope to stay in sync
+		# with exactly what it does we will just spot-test here.
+		test_completion "git bisect view --sta" <<-\EOF &&
+		--stat Z
+		EOF
+		test_completion "git bisect view --summar" <<-\EOF
+		--summary Z
+		EOF
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'git checkout - completes refs and unique remote branches for DWIM' '
 	test_completion "git checkout " <<-\EOF
 	HEAD Z