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[tanvimoharir]

Refers #9332
(previously #9411 )

[benjaoming]

@tanvimoharir thanks for having patience and helping to throubleshoot a CI issue here 👍

Observing that "checks" now says ✔️ ...

I'm quite sure the previous issue with "checks" failing at pre-commit run --from-ref main --to-ref HEAD was because the forked repo had an out-dated main branch. The comparison is intended to be run against the upstream main branch of readthedocs/readthedocs.org but that's probably not the remote that Circle CI's git checkout points to.

My take: I don't think we can expect a forked repo to always maintain the latest main branch, we need the CI to not rely on that. There are probably a few ways to fix this.

[tanvimoharir]

@tanvimoharir thanks for having patience and helping to throubleshoot a CI issue here 👍

Observing that "checks" now says ✔️ ...

I'm quite sure the previous issue with "checks" failing at pre-commit run --from-ref main --to-ref HEAD was because the forked repo had an out-dated main branch. The comparison is intended to be run against the upstream main branch of readthedocs/readthedocs.org but that's probably not the remote that Circle CI's git checkout points to.

My take: I don't think we can expect a forked repo to always maintain the latest main branch, we need the CI to not rely on that. There are probably a few ways to fix this.

thanks @benjaoming for helping me! appreciate it.

[humitos]

Thanks for your time and work here! Unfortunately, we haven't had the time to prioritize this work and review it. I will close this PR for now, but we can come back in the future to recover this work.