Build: skip checkout step when building latest without an explicit default branch

readthedocs/api/v2/views/integrations.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from rest_framework.status import HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST
 from rest_framework.views import APIView
 
-from readthedocs.builds.constants import LATEST
+from readthedocs.builds.constants import BRANCH, LATEST
 from readthedocs.core.signals import webhook_bitbucket, webhook_github, webhook_gitlab
 from readthedocs.core.views.hooks import (
     build_branches,
@@ -316,7 +316,8 @@ def update_default_branch(self, default_branch):
             # Always check for the machine attribute, since latest can be user created.
             # RTD doesn't manage those.
             self.project.versions.filter(slug=LATEST, machine=True).update(
-                identifier=default_branch
+                identifier=default_branch,
+                type=BRANCH,
             )
 
 

readthedocs/builds/tasks.py

@@ -359,9 +359,13 @@ def sync_versions_task(project_pk, tags_data, branches_data, **kwargs):
             versions=added_versions,
         )
 
-    # Sync latest and stable to match the correct type and identifier.
-    project.update_latest_version()
+    # Sync latest to match the correct type and identifier
+    # if the project has a default branch set,
+    # otherwise the latest version was already updated in the previous step.
+    if project.default_branch:
+        project.update_latest_version()
     # TODO: move this to an automation rule
+    # Sync stable to match the correct type and identifier.
     promoted_version = project.update_stable_version()
     new_stable = project.get_stable_version()
     if promoted_version and new_stable and new_stable.active:

readthedocs/vcs_support/backends/git.py

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ def clone(self):
         #  of the default branch. Once this case has been made redundant, we can have
         #  --no-checkout for all clones.
         # --depth 1: Shallow clone, fetch as little data as possible.
-        cmd = ["git", "clone", "--depth", "1", self.repo_url, "."]
+        cmd = ["git", "clone", "--depth", "1", "--", self.repo_url, "."]
 
         try:
             # TODO: Explain or remove the return value
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ def fetch(self):
         if remote_reference:
             # TODO: We are still fetching the latest 50 commits.
             # A PR might have another commit added after the build has started...
-            cmd.append(remote_reference)
+            cmd.extend(["--", remote_reference])
 
         # Log a warning, except for machine versions since it's a known bug that
         # we haven't stored a remote refspec in Version for those "stable" versions.
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ def lsremote(self, include_tags=True, include_branches=True):
         if include_branches:
             extra_args.append("--heads")
 
-        cmd = ["git", "ls-remote", *extra_args, self.repo_url]
+        cmd = ["git", "ls-remote", *extra_args, "--", self.repo_url]
 
         self.check_working_dir()
         _, stdout, _ = self.run(*cmd, demux=True, record=False)