Check who generated a repository from your GitHub template

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

I always use the name of the repository as the title (# terraform-multienv) which is very common, so if you also do that keep on reading.

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 terraform-multienv
  github.com/search?q=in%3Areadme+terraform-multienv

• in:readme sort:updated -user:@me terraform-multienv
  github.com/search?q=in%3Areadme+sort%3Aupdated+-user%3A%40me+terraform-multienv&type=repositories

I use the latter query to get meaningful search results, by sorting with sort:updated and filtering out my user name -user:USERNAME with -QUALIFIER. The keyword @me is a saved keyword given by GitHub.

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62943177/how-to-see-how-many-repos-created-from-my-repo-template-github/63910250#63910250