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skinfaxi • yesterday at 4:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> (we also ask the candidate to open a PR against the repo just to see if they know the basics of git -- you would be surprise how many people cannot do it).

How does that work? Git has no concept of pull requests.


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robkeane • yesterday at 7:37 PM

Extremely funny for OP to advertise this gotcha style question that's built on a misunderstanding of the tools

Doesn't surprise me at all that many developers can't do this, most professional software development isn't happening on Gitub.