alt Hacker News we also ask the candidate to open a PR against the repo just to see if they know the basics of git
A candidate may be able to open a PR and not be able to make a commit without an IDE.
Another candidate might know plenty of git, but haven't worked with Github.
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SoftTalker • yesterday at 5:15 PM
> might know plenty of git, but haven't worked with Github
That seems very unlikely. Github is the entire reason git is so popular, vs. any of the other distributed VC systems.
Edit: I'll refine that, after a moment of thought. Git is popular because of Github. But, I guess that now maybe there are people who are using git because it's the popular/default version control choice, but they might not be using Github. They might be using another forge, something homegrown, or just manual builds.
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But, like... wouldn't you want them to at least know the steps of `git add` -> `git commit` -> `git push` and then click the button on Github? And Gitlab has basically the same web UI.
I have no problem with letting an IDE or LLM handle those details in practice... but I don't think I'd want to work with someone who doesn't understand the very basics of what's going on under the hood.