GitLab keyboard shortcuts
Project pages, issues, merge request review, and text formatting on GitLab.
78 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 14, 2026
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30 actions and 60 key variants match.
- GitLab Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Show the shortcut reference sheet Any GitLab page | Mac ? 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the homepage Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftH 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your projects Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftP 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your groups Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftG 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your activity Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftA 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your milestones Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftL 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your snippets Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftS 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your issues Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftI 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to your merge requests Any GitLab page | Mac ShiftM 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project overview Project | Mac GO 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project activity Project | Mac GV 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project releases Project | Mac GR 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the repository files Project | Mac GF 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the repository graph Project | Mac GN 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the repository analytics charts Project | Mac GD 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the work items Project | Mac GI 1 more variant | Source |
| Start a new issue Project | Mac I 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the issue boards Project | Mac GB 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project merge requests Project | Mac GM 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the CI/CD pipelines Project | Mac GP 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the CI/CD jobs Project | Mac GJ 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the environments Project | Mac GE 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the Kubernetes clusters page Project, maintainer access | Mac GK 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project snippets Project | Mac GS 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the project wiki Project with a wiki | Mac GW 1 more variant | Source |
| Move to the next file Merge request diff | Mac ] 1 more variant | Source |
| Move to the previous file Merge request diff | Mac [ 1 more variant | Source |
| Move to the next commit Merge request commits | Mac C 1 more variant | Source |
| Move to the previous commit Merge request commits | Mac X 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the file permalink Viewing a file | Mac Y 1 more variant | Source |
About GitLab and its shortcuts
GitLab's keyboard covers the same ground as its website: moving between merge requests, issues, pipelines and the repository, with a global search that is quicker than the navigation menus. Its help overlay is itself a shortcut, which is the fastest way to see what the current page supports.
Shortcuts can be disabled per user, and self-managed installations can run older versions whose commands differ from the current documentation. What applies also depends on which page you are on.
Where the GitLab keys came from
Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of GitLab. Report a key that is wrong
To see how one action is done in other apps as well as GitLab, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task