<p>In all the Git tutorials I've read they say that you can do:</p>

<pre><code>git init
git add .
git commit
</code></pre>

<p>When I do that I get a big text file opened up. None of the tutorials seem to address this, so I don't know what to do with the file or what to put in it if anything.</p>

The
```
git commit
```
command will open up the editor specified in the
```
EDITOR
```
environment variable so you can enter a commit comment.  On a Linux or BSD system, this should be vi by default, although any editor should work.
Just enter your comments and save the file.