[dimgl]

> in every single case I’ve seen, the developers who broke their local environments that badly had significant skill deficits which affected their general productivity. Investing in training paid dividends far beyond not having to deal with their local environment getting hosed since they also stopped creating massive security and performance problems in production.

I mirror this sentiment.

Another one that I've commonly seen: a bit of a yellow flag if a developer is struggling with Git. Becomes a red flag if the issues continue to happen after training. Usually means they don't understand other technical fundamentals.

[keybored]

A lot of developers struggle with Git. The only reason I don’t is because I’m interested in version control (too much according to some people I argue with).

Well I say that I don’t struggle but I’ve never had to use submodules.[1]

[1] Torvalds: people say that submodules is hard to use. True. But it’s gotten better now/it’s getting better. (Google Tech Talk 2007)

[acdha]

For me it comes down to how often something is holding you back. It’s perfectly reasonable for someone to only use the core Git operations, but if they’re losing work or having trouble collaborating that’s when I start to expect them to recognize that and try to improve.