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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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Everything Clipboard Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection Text formatting View and zoom

78 actions and 78 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Search for a file in the repository Project Windows T Source
Go to the commit list Project Windows GC 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
Edit the issue description Issue Windows E Source
Change the assignee Issue Windows A Source
Change the milestone Issue Windows M Source
Change the labels Issue Windows L Source
Copy the issue reference Issue Windows CR Source
Start a comment that quotes the selection Issue Windows R Source
Move to the next file Merge request diff Windows ] Source
Move to the previous file Merge request diff Windows [ Source
Search for a file to review Merge request diff Windows CtrlP Source
Move to the next open thread Merge request Windows N Source
Move to the previous open thread Merge request Windows P Source
Copy the source branch name Merge request Windows B Source
Publish your comment immediately Merge request comment Windows ShiftCtrlEnter Source
Add the comment to your pending review Merge request comment Windows CtrlEnter Source
Move to the next commit Merge request commits Windows C Source
Move to the previous commit Merge request commits Windows X 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

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