Nearly every page on GitHub Enterprise has a keyboard shortcut to perform actions faster.

Typing ? in GitHub Enterprise brings up a dialog box that lists the keyboard shortcuts available for that page. You can use these keyboard shortcuts to perform actions across the site without using your mouse to navigate.

Below is a list of some of the available keyboard shortcuts.

Site wide shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcut Description
s Focus the search bar
g + n Go to your notifications

Repositories

Keyboard Shortcut Description
g + c Go to your repository
g + i Go to your issues
g + p Go to your pull requests
g + w Go to your wiki

Source code browsing

Keyboard Shortcut Description
t Activates the file finder
l Jump to a line in your code
w Switch to a new branch or tag
y Expand a URL to its canonical form
i Show or hide comments on diffs

Comments

Keyboard Shortcut Description
command/control + b Inserts Markdown formatting for bolding text
command/control + i Inserts Markdown formatting for italicizing text
command/control + k Inserts Markdown formatting for creating a link

Issue and pull request lists

Keyboard Shortcut Description
c Create an issue
/ Focus the issues search bar
u Filter by author
l Filter by or edit labels
m Filter by or edit milestones
a Filter by or edit assignee
r Quote the selected text in your reply
o + enter Open issue

Changes in pull requests

Keyboard Shortcut Description
c Open the list of commits
t Open the list of changed files
j Move selection down in the list
k Move selection up in the list

Notifications

Keyboard Shortcut Description
e I y Mark as read
shift m Mute thread

Network Graph

Keyboard Shortcut Description
← or h Scroll left
→ or l Scroll right
↑ or k Scroll up
↓ or j Scroll down
shift ← or shift h Scroll all the way left
shift → or shift l Scroll all the way right
shift ↑ or shift k Scroll all the way up
shift ↓ or shift j Scroll all the way down