GitLab Cheat Sheet

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

Keyboard Shortcuts

Epics

Shortcut Action
R Start writing a comment, if any text is selected it will be quoted
E Edit description
L Change a label

Filtered Search

Shortcut Action
Ctrl Backspace Clear entire search filter
Alt Backspace Clear one token at a time

Wiki Pages

Shortcut Action
E Edit wiki page

Repository Graph

Shortcut Action
Left Scroll left
Right Scroll right
Up Scroll up
Down Scroll down
Shift Up Scroll to top
Shift Down Scroll to bottom

Web IDE

Shortcut Action
Ctrl P Search for, and then open, another file for editing
Ctrl Enter Commit, when editing the commit message

Project Files

Shortcut Action
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

Issues and Merge Requests

Shortcut Action
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

Shortcut Action
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

Global

Shortcut Action
? 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