What is a subproject commit?

Question

I\'m trying to add the Laravel files to a Github repo.

I ran

$ git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

The files show up fine loca

Answer 1

It means the repository uses Submodules.

To pull down the Laravel code, try

git submodule init
git submodule update

Submodules are notoriously prickly; I recommend reading up on them before working too much on a project that uses them. The link above should be a good starting point.