diff --git a/.actions/setup_tools.py b/.actions/setup_tools.py
index b025af1a7a..33d587aa93 100644
--- a/.actions/setup_tools.py
+++ b/.actions/setup_tools.py
@@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ def _load_aggregate_requirements(req_dir: str = "requirements", freeze_requireme
     requires = [
         load_requirements(d, file_name="base.txt", unfreeze=not freeze_requirements)
         for d in glob.glob(os.path.join(req_dir, "*"))
-        if os.path.isdir(d)
+        # skip empty folder as git artefacts, and resolving Will's special issue
+        if os.path.isdir(d) and len(glob.glob(os.path.join(d, "*"))) > 0
     ]
     if not requires:
         return None
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3793e33fc3..497a32eab2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ warn_no_return = "False"
 module = [
     "pytorch_lightning.callbacks.progress.rich_progress",
     "pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer",
+    "pytorch_lightning.trainer.connectors.checkpoint_connector",
     "pytorch_lightning.tuner.batch_size_scaling",
     "lightning_app.api.http_methods",
     "lightning_app.api.request_types",
diff --git a/requirements/docs/base.txt b/requirements/docs/base.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b00471602..0000000000
--- a/requirements/docs/base.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-sphinx>=4.0, <5.0
-myst-parser>=0.15, <0.17
-nbsphinx>=0.8.5, <=0.8.9
-pandoc>=1.0, <=2.2
-docutils>=0.16, <0.19
-sphinxcontrib-fulltoc>=1.0, <=1.2.0
-sphinxcontrib-mockautodoc
-sphinx-autodoc-typehints>=1.11, <1.15  # strict; v1.15 failing on master (#11405)
-sphinx-paramlinks>=0.5.1, <=0.5.4
-sphinx-togglebutton>=0.2, <=0.3.2
-sphinx-copybutton>=0.3, <=0.5.0
-sphinx-multiproject
-jinja2>=3.0.0,<3.1.0