Step Five: Make Your First Commit When you send files to GitHub, you commit them. To practice, we're going to initialize your local repository and create a README file to commit as practice.

Since a README file is usually just plain text, throughout this tutorial we’ll be creating dummy README files and then committing them to different remote GitHub repositories.

Note that .md files on GitHub support a special version of the Markdown language, unsurprisingly called GitHub Flavored Markdown. The GitHub tutorial suggests writing something about yourself.