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GitHub keyboard shortcuts

Repository navigation, code browsing, review, and Markdown shortcuts.

44 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 12, 2026

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Every system Mac Windows
Everything Blocks and structure Clipboard Code editing Comments and review Editing Files and printing Messages and mail Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection Tabs and windows
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Focus the search bar Any GitHub page Mac S 1 more variant Source
Go to your notifications Any GitHub page Mac GN 1 more variant Source
Go to the Code tab Repository Mac GC 1 more variant Source
Go to the Issues tab Repository Mac GI 1 more variant Source
Go to the Pull requests tab Repository Mac GP 1 more variant Source
Go to the Actions tab Repository Mac GA 1 more variant Source
Go to the Wiki tab Repository Mac GW 1 more variant Source
Go to the Discussions tab Repository Mac GG 1 more variant Source
Go to the Security tab Repository Mac GS 1 more variant Source
Open the web editor Repository or pull request Mac . 1 more variant Source
Open the file finder Repository code view Mac T 1 more variant Source
Jump to a line in the file Repository code view Mac L 1 more variant Source
Switch to a branch or tag Repository code view Mac W 1 more variant Source
Expand the address to its canonical form Repository code view Mac Y 1 more variant Source
Show or hide comments on a diff Diff view Mac I 1 more variant Source
Open the blame view Repository code view Mac B 1 more variant Source
Bold the selected text Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdB 1 more variant Source
Italicise the selected text Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdI 1 more variant Source
Insert inline code formatting Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdE 1 more variant Source
Insert a link Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdK 1 more variant Source
Insert a numbered list Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdShift7 1 more variant Source
Insert a bulleted list Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdShift8 1 more variant Source
Insert a quote Comment or Markdown field Mac CmdShift. 1 more variant Source
Paste a link as plain text Comment field Mac CmdShiftV 1 more variant Source
Switch between Write and Preview Comment field Mac CmdShiftP 1 more variant Source
Submit the comment Comment field Mac CmdEnter 1 more variant Source
Create an issue Issue or pull request list Mac C 1 more variant Source
Focus the issue search bar Issue or pull request list Mac Cmd/ 1 more variant Source
Request a reviewer Issue or pull request Mac Q 1 more variant Source
Set a milestone Issue or pull request Mac M 1 more variant Source

About GitHub and its shortcuts

GitHub's website has a keyboard layer that most of its users never switch on in their heads: single letters and short sequences jump between pull requests, issues, code search and the file finder. For code review in particular, moving between files and comments without the mouse changes how fast a review goes.

These are commands of the website, not of Git itself, and GitHub lets you disable them in your account settings. The set also changes as the site changes, and some commands only apply on specific pages.

Where the GitHub keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of GitHub. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as GitHub, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task