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GitLab Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Visual cheat sheet for 58 keyboard shortcuts in GitLab.

Universal

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Show or hide keyboard shortcuts reference table ? ?
Go to your projects page Shift + P Shift + P
Go to your groups page Shift + G Shift + G
Go to your activity page Shift + A Shift + A
Go to your milestones page Shift + L Shift + L
Go to your snippets page Shift + S Shift + S
Place cursor in issue or merge request search S S
Go to your issues page Shift + I Shift + I
Go to your merge requests page Shift + T Shift + T
Show or hide performance bar P + B P + B
Edit your last comment (must be in empty text field below a thread) Up Up
Toggle Markdown preview when editing text in a text field Cmd + Shift + P Ctrl + Shift + P

Project

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Go to project home page G + P G + P
Go to project activity feed G + V G + V
Go to project releases list G + R G + R
Go to project files list G + F G + F
Go to project file search page T T
Go to project commits list G + C G + C
Go to repository network page G + N G + N
Go to repository graph G + D G + D
Go to project issues list G + I G + I
Go to new issue page I I
Go to project issue boards list G + B G + B
Go to project merge requests list G + M G + M
Go to CI/CD jobs list G + J G + J
Go to project metrics G + L G + L
Go to project environments G + E G + E
Go to project Kubernetes cluster integration page G + K G + K
Go to project snippets list G + S G + S
Go to project Wiki (if enabled) G + W G + W

Issues and Merge Requests

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Edit description E E
Change assignee A A
Change milestone M M
Change label L L
Start a comment (quotes any selected text) R R
Move to next unresolved discussion (merge requests only) N N
Move to previous unresolved discussion (merge requests only) P P
Move to next file (merge requests only) ] ]
Move to previous file (merge requests only) [ [

Project Files

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Move selection up Up Up
Move selection down Down Down
Open selection Enter Enter
Back to file list screen (only when searching for files) Esc Esc
Go to file permalink (only when viewing a file) Y Y

Web IDE

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Search and open another file for editing Cmd + P Ctrl + P
Commit (when editing commit message) Cmd + Enter Ctrl + Enter

Repository Graph

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Scroll left Left Left
Scroll right Right Right
Scroll up Up Up
Scroll down Down Down
Scroll to top Shift + Up Shift + Up
Scroll to bottom Shift + Down Shift + Down

Wiki Pages

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Edit Wiki page E E

Filtered Search

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Clear the entire search filter Cmd + Backspace Ctrl + Backspace
Clear one token at a time Alt + Backspace Alt + Backspace

Epics

Action Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Start a comment (quotes any selected text) R R
Edit description E E
Change label L L