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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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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

2 actions and 2 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Open the selected project item Project board Mac Space Source
Archive the selected project items Project board Mac E 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