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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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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Show the shortcut reference sheet Any GitLab page Windows ? Source
Go to the homepage Any GitLab page Windows ShiftH Source
Go to your projects Any GitLab page Windows ShiftP Source
Go to your groups Any GitLab page Windows ShiftG Source
Go to your activity Any GitLab page Windows ShiftA Source
Go to your milestones Any GitLab page Windows ShiftL Source
Go to your snippets Any GitLab page Windows ShiftS Source
Go to your issues Any GitLab page Windows ShiftI Source
Go to your merge requests Any GitLab page Windows ShiftM Source
Go to the project overview Project Windows GO Source
Go to the project activity Project Windows GV Source
Go to the project releases Project Windows GR Source
Go to the repository files Project Windows GF Source
Go to the repository graph Project Windows GN Source
Go to the repository analytics charts Project Windows GD Source
Go to the work items Project Windows GI Source
Start a new issue Project Windows I Source
Go to the issue boards Project Windows GB Source
Go to the project merge requests Project Windows GM Source
Go to the CI/CD pipelines Project Windows GP Source
Go to the CI/CD jobs Project Windows GJ Source
Go to the environments Project Windows GE Source
Go to the Kubernetes clusters page Project, maintainer access Windows GK Source
Go to the project snippets Project Windows GS Source
Go to the project wiki Project with a wiki Windows GW Source
Move to the next file Merge request diff Windows ] Source
Move to the previous file Merge request diff Windows [ Source
Move to the next commit Merge request commits Windows C Source
Move to the previous commit Merge request commits Windows X Source
Go to the file permalink Viewing a file Windows Y 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