Cloning Laravel Homestead Repository

Steps to Clone Laravel Homestead using Git on Windows:

1. Create a directory/folder where you clone the Homestead repository. In my below example, I created vm a directory/folder.

1. Open Git Bash or the command terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to install Homestead. Run the following command to clone the Homestead repository.

git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead

Run the following command to clone the Homestead repository.

Homestead repository successfully cloned.

1. After cloning, Run the following command to change Homestead directory and to checkout the latest stable release of Homestead

cd Homestead
 
git checkout release

git branch

Checkout the latest stable release of Homestead.

That's it! You've successfully cloned Laravel Homestead on your Windows machine.

In the next topic, we will configure folder mapping to share your Laravel project folder between your host and guest machines.