Credit: [@Musisimaru](https://gitlab.com/Musisimaru) (originally
    introduced in
    [!229](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/merge_requests/229))

This is a copy paste of the code contributed by Mussimaru in
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/merge_requests/229
This code doesn't compile, but I wanted to include it as a record that
he's done most of the work.