GitLab Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 58 keyboard shortcuts found in GitLab.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Global

? — Show or hide the shortcut reference sheet

Shift P — Go to your projects page

Shift G — Go to your groups page

Shift A — Go to your activity page

Shift L — Go to your milestones page

Shift S — Go to your snippets page

S — Put the cursor in the issues or merge requests search

Shift I — Go to your issues page

Shift T — Go to your merge requests page

P B — Show or hide the performance bar

Up — Edit your last comment, you must be in a blank text field below a thread

Ctrl Shift P — Toggle markdown preview when editing text in a text field

Project

G P — Go to the project home page

G V — Go to the project activity feed

G R — Go to the project releases list

G F — Go to the project files list

T — Go to the project file search page

G C — Go to the project commits list

G N — Go to the repository graph page

G D — Go to the repository charts

G I — Go to the project issues list

I — Go to the new issue page

G B — Go to the project issues boards list

G M — Go to the project merge requests list

G J — Go to the CI/CD jobs list

G L — Go to the project metrics

G E — Go to the project environments

G K — Go to the project Kubernetes cluster integration page

G S — Go to the project snippets list

G W — Go to the project wiki, if enabled

Issues and Merge Requests

E — Edit description

A — Change assignee

M — Change milestone

L — Change label

R — Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted

N — Move to next unresolved discussion, merge requests only

P — Move to previous unresolved discussion, merge requests only

] — Move to next file, merge requests only

[ — Move to previous file, merge requests only

Project Files

Up — Move selection up

Down — Move selection down

Enter — Open selection

Esc — Go back to file list screen, only while searching for files

Y — Go to file permalink, only while viewing a file

Web IDE

Ctrl P — Search for, and then open, another file for editing

Ctrl Enter — Commit, when editing the commit message

Repository Graph

Left — Scroll left

Right — Scroll right

Up — Scroll up

Down — Scroll down

Shift Up — Scroll to top

Shift Down — Scroll to bottom

Wiki Pages

E — Edit wiki page

Filtered Search

Ctrl Backspace — Clear entire search filter

Alt Backspace — Clear one token at a time

Epics

R — Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted

E — Edit description

L — Change a label