title: How to connect Visual Studio 2015 to an existing Gitlab project?
body: <p>There is an on-premise instance of <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/" rel="noreferrer">gitlab</a> installed. There are Visual Studio projects in this instance. What is the easiest way of connecting Visual Studio 2015 to one of the projects?</p>
  
  <p>With GitHub, you can do it by selecting "Connect to GitHub" as on the following picture:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/U129Y.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/U129Y.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>and then pasting the repository url. There is no GitLab option in the drop down. What is the easiest way of configuring Visual Studio 2015 to work with a solution from gitlab repository? By work I mean to have your usual source control bindings to the repository.</p>
  
  <p>Note, that this question is probably useful in more general context of connecting to <em>any</em> git repository that is not GitHub, and does not have direct support with built-in Visual Studio menu, not just to GitLab repository.</p>