I would generally initialise a repo when I start the project. I would grab a gitignore from https://gitignore.io https://gitignore.io and not think to much more

I would generally initialise a repo when I start the project. I would grab a gitignore from https://gitignore.io https://gitignore.io and not think to much more about it. You don't have to be super formal with your commits as you would when working with others.