What comes first local git repo or new Intellij project?!?

I'm an Intellij newbie and also trying to learn Git at the same time.  I want to create a new IntelliJ project and to use Github as the VCS.   So what happens in what order?

Do I....

Option #1 

• Create a new local repo
• Create a new Intellij project and use the new  repo folder as the base folder for the new project

Option #2

• Create a new IntelliJ project
• Create a new repo
• Check in the files to the repo when they are complete