title: any way to obtain the "dot git" (.git) directory from a github repository?
body: <h2>Background</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>github (version as of 2014-10-27)</li>
  <li>creating a new repository on github using the github web interface</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h2>Problem</h2>
  
  <h3>Goal</h3>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Goal: to get a copy of the .git directory that git creates when "git init" is run</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h3>Details</h3>
  
  <p>Trevor has created a repository on github by using the following link:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/new" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/new</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Trevor would like to obtain the .git directory that was created on github's server, in order
  to compare some aspects of it with the .git directory that was created on his local machine
  when he cloned the repository there.</p>
  
  <h3>Failed attempts</h3>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Trevor has not attempted to do this yet, because there does not appear to be any documentation covering how to get this done.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h2>See also</h2>
  
  <p>Web links:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://help.github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://help.github.com/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/new" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/new</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <h2>Questions</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Is there any way to do this, or is Trevor out of luck?</li>
  <li>If there is no way to do this, is there any way to learn the details of what github puts into its own .git directories when a new repo is created through the github web interface?</li>
  </ul>