It would be great to be able to get the template repository details from a created repo - so you could know what repository the created repo is based off.
This information is available through the rest API.
{
"id":xxxx,
"node_id": "R_kgDOIQCw0A",
"name": "test-generic-repo",
"full_name": "orgt/test-generic-repo",
"private": true,
"**template_repository**": {
"id": 470521023,
"node_id": "R_kgDOHAuUvw",
"name": "my-template",
"full_name": "org/my-template",
"private": true,
"owner": {
"login": "org",
"id": 69310803,
"avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/69310803?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/org",
"html_url": "https://github.com/org",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/orgt/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/received_events",
"type": "Organization",
"site_admin": false
}
"network_count": 0,
"subscribers_count": 0
}
It would be great to be able to get the template repository details from a created repo - so you could know what repository the created repo is based off.
This information is available through the rest API.
Example on a simple GET request to https://api.github.com/repos/org/reponame - I would love to expose the template_repository json object