> (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.

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.