GitLab

GitLab

A visual cheat-sheet for the 58 keyboard shortcuts found in GitLab

Keyboard Shortcuts

Global

Shortcut	Action
?	Show or hide the shortcut reference sheet
Shift P	Go to your projects page
Shift G	Go to your groups page
Shift A	Go to your activity page
Shift L	Go to your milestones page
Shift S	Go to your snippets page
S	Put the cursor in the issues or merge requests search
Shift I	Go to your issues page
Shift T	Go to your merge requests page
P B	Show or hide the performance bar
Up	Edit your last comment, you must be in a blank text field below a thread
Ctrl Shift P	Toggle markdown preview when editing text in a text field

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Project

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

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Issues and Merge Requests

Shortcut	Action
E	Edit description
A	Change assignee
M	Change milestone
L	Change label
R	Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted
N	Move to next unresolved discussion, merge requests only
P	Move to previous unresolved discussion, merge requests only
]	Move to next file, merge requests only
[	Move to previous file, merge requests only

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Project Files

Shortcut	Action
Up	Move selection up
Down	Move selection down
Enter	Open selection
Esc	Go back to file list screen, only while searching for files
Y	Go to file permalink, only while viewing a file

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Web IDE

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl P	Search for, and then open, another file for editing
Ctrl Enter	Commit, when editing the commit message

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Repository Graph

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

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Wiki Pages

Shortcut	Action
E	Edit wiki page

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Filtered Search

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl Backspace	Clear entire search filter
Alt Backspace	Clear one token at a time

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Epics

Shortcut	Action
R	Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted
E	Edit description
L	Change a label

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Also see

• Keyboard shortcuts for GitLab (docs.gitlab.com)