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GitLab Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

A visual cheat sheet for 58 keyboard shortcuts in GitLab.

General

Operation Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
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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
Focus search bar (Issues or Merge Requests) 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 last comment (must be in blank text field below thread) Up Up
Toggle Markdown preview (when editing text) Cmd + Shift + P Ctrl + Shift + P

Project

Operation 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 release list G + R G + R
Go to project file list G + F G + F
Go to project file search page T T
Go to project commit list G + C G + C
Go to repository graph page G + N G + N
Go to repository charts G + D G + D
Go to project issue list G + I G + I
Go to new issue page I I
Go to project issue board list G + B G + B
Go to project merge request list G + M G + M
Go to CI/CD job 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

Operation Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Edit description E E
Change assignee A A
Change milestone M M
Change labels L L
Start a comment (selected text will be quoted) 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

Operation Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Move selection up Up Up
Move selection down Down Down
Open selection Enter Enter
Return to file list screen (while searching) Esc Esc
Go to file permalink (while viewing file) Y Y

Web IDE

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

Repository Graph

Operation 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

Operation Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Edit wiki page E E

Filtered Search

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

Epics

Operation Mac Shortcut Win Shortcut
Start a comment (selected text will be quoted) R R
Edit description E E
Change labels L L