Cloning a repo into Forge - storage folders

Hi all,

I made a new Sail project with Jetstream and made an initial commit on a new repo. I then set up a new site in Forge and tried cloning the repo, but Forge is telling me to provide a valid cache path.

After searching, I found this Laracasts thread with the exact same problem. Based on the answer, I don't understand why the default Laravel .gitignore has /storage/ as a project exclude path? That seems to be preventing the empty framework/views, framework/cache, framework/testing, and framework/sessions child folders from being generated when the site is cloned.

Sorry, I know I must just be missing something very basic. Thanks!