How to see how many repos created from my repo template (GitHub)

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Eureka! After reading this – Search based on the contents of a repository, the answer was clear! Search by README.md file content!

Use GitHub’s search engine and provide a unique combination of words that appear in your README.md file. This is how I do it for my template – unfor19/terraform-multienv

in:readme sort:updated -user:unfor19 "tfmultienv"
github.com/search?q=in%3Areadme+sort%3Aupdated+-user%3Aunfor19+%22%60tfmultienv%60%22&type=repositories

To get meaningful search results

  • Sorting with sort:updated
  • Filtering out my user name -user:USERNAME with -QUALIFIER.

Instead of hardcoding USERNAME you can use the keyword @me.

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