Original solution comes from this SO post.

First you need to connect to MySQL:

mysql

There are certain files created by particular editors, IDEs, operating systems, etc., that do not belong in a repository. But adding system-specific files to the repo's .gitignore is considered a poor practice. This file should only exclude files and directories that are a part of the package that should not be versioned (such as the node_modules directory) as well as files that are generated (and regenerated) as artifacts of a build process.

All other files should be in your own global gitignore file. Create a file called .gitignore in your home directory and add anything you want to ignore. You then need to tell git where your global gitignore file is.

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

git config --global core.excludesfile %USERPROFILE%\.gitignore

When cloning a Laravel project from a repo, a number of things need to be done in order to have a working project locally. Here the different steps are mentioned.

Create a vendor folder at the root of your project. Once created run the following command to install all dependencies in this folder:

composer install

Run the following command into the terminal:

zip -r foldername.zip foldername/* -x "*.DS_Store"