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Comment on Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions

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How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".

Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...

Great, thanks!

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