My visual studio 2015 works fine with Git connecting to BitBucket. However when connecting to a private Gitlab server, I have a weird problem: - I can clone a repo from the
It seems like you've diagnosed the problem yourself (nice sleuthing!) But to answer your two direct questions:
There is a difference between the tooling built in to Visual Studio and the command line. Visual Studio uses libgit2, which is a reimplementation of git as a linkable library. It does not shell out to the command line at all to perform its work.
As a result, no, you cannot see the commands, as it is not actually running any.