Revert "bot_update: Fetch references to be synced."

This reverts commit 3806b7fb.

Reason for revert: Broke downstream tot bots

Original change's description:
> bot_update: Fetch references to be synced.
> 
> If a solution is to be synced to a reference, such as
> refs/branch-heads/#### fetch it so that it can later be
> checked out.
> 
> I tried this change on a LUCI task that runs chromium_presubmit
> for crrev.com/c/1048868. The bot_update works as expected:
> https://ci.chromium.org/swarming/task/3d5b294cff467710?server=chromium-swarm.appspot.com
> 
> 
> Bug: 840445
> 
> Change-Id: I6444c0feb679ca89b2f4065215de915494e5082a
> Recipe-Nontrivial-Roll: infra
> Recipe-Nontrivial-Roll: build
> Recipe-Nontrivial-Roll: build_limited
> Recipe-Nontrivial-Roll: build_limited_scripts_slave
> Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1049007
> Commit-Queue: Edward Lesmes <ehmaldonado@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Andrii Shyshkalov <tandrii@chromium.org>

TBR=mmoss@chromium.org,machenbach@chromium.org,tandrii@chromium.org,ehmaldonado@chromium.org

Change-Id: If94df8684e634504d8a0c11b2aa5862a458ba19f
No-Presubmit: true
No-Tree-Checks: true
No-Try: true
Bug: 840445, 841306
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1052187Reviewed-by: agrieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: agrieve <agrieve@chromium.org>

recipes/README.recipes.md

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Wrapper for easy calling of bot_update.
 
 — **def [apply\_gerrit\_ref](/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py#47)(self, root, gerrit_no_reset=False, gerrit_no_rebase_patch_ref=False, gerrit_repo=None, gerrit_ref=None, step_name='apply_gerrit', \*\*kwargs):**
 
-— **def [deapply\_patch](/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py#399)(self, bot_update_step):**
+— **def [deapply\_patch](/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py#397)(self, bot_update_step):**
 
 Deapplies a patch, taking care of DEPS and solution revisions properly.
     
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Args:
   manifest_name: The name of the manifest to upload to LogDog.  This must
     be unique for the whole build.
 
-— **def [get\_project\_revision\_properties](/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py#376)(self, project_name, gclient_config=None):**
+— **def [get\_project\_revision\_properties](/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py#374)(self, project_name, gclient_config=None):**
 
 Returns all property names used for storing the checked-out revision of
 a given project.

recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/api.py

@@ -183,12 +183,6 @@ class BotUpdateApi(recipe_api.RecipeApi):
         if fixed_revision.upper() == 'HEAD':
           # Sync to correct destination branch if HEAD was specified.
           fixed_revision = self._destination_branch(cfg, name)
-        # If we're syncing to a ref, we want to make sure it exists before
-        # trying to check it out.
-        if fixed_revision.startswith('refs/'):
-          # Handle the "ref:revision" syntax, e.g.
-          # refs/branch-heads/4.2:deadbeef
-          refs.append(fixed_revision.split(':')[0])
         flags.append(['--revision', '%s@%s' % (name, fixed_revision)])
 
     # Add extra fetch refspecs.

recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/examples/full.py

@@ -222,14 +222,6 @@ def GenTests(api):
       'gerrit get_patch_destination_branch',
       api.gerrit.get_one_change_response_data(branch='experimental/feature'),
   )
-  yield api.test('tryjob_gerrit_branch_heads') + api.properties.tryserver(
-      gerrit_project='chromium/src',
-      patch_issue=338811,
-      patch_set=3,
-  ) + api.step_data(
-      'gerrit get_patch_destination_branch',
-      api.gerrit.get_one_change_response_data(branch='refs/branch-heads/67'),
-  )
   yield api.test('tryjob_gerrit_angle_deprecated') + api.properties.tryserver(
       patch_project='angle/angle',
       gerrit='https://chromium-review.googlesource.com',