# Adding Documentation to a GitHub Repository

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-documentation-to-a-github-repository/40405>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-documentation-to-a-github-repository/40405 "2020-05-29T09:19:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-documentation-to-a-github-repository/40405/2 "2020-05-29T10:17:15Z")

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I had similar problems and @Tamas_Papp fixed me up. Look at my tale of confusion at

> [@Trouble with hosting. What am I doing wrong?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-hosting-what-am-i-doing-wrong/30111):
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> Hello. I am an utter novice with Documenter and am completely stuck. Thanks in advance for any help. I’m stuck on the hosting part of Documenter.jl. I got the ssh keys where they were supposed to be, which seemed to be easy. I uploaded the /docs directory (except for docs/build) to my repo. That caused a travis build to fail and I can’t see why. I changed .travis.yml as per the directions in Documenter.jl and got another build failure. Then I changed the ENV variables and did % julia make.jl …

It’s a bit subtle. I think “stable” goes with your most recent tag and “dev” goes with your master branch. It is now working ok for me. Look at what I’ve managed to do at

> **[GitHub - ctkelley/SIAMFANLEquations.jl: This is a Julia package of nonlinear...](https://github.com/ctkelley/SIAMFANLEquations.jl)**
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> This is a Julia package of nonlinear solvers. These codes are used in my book, Solving Nonlinear Equations with Iterative Methods: Solvers and Examples in Julia. - GitHub - ctkelley/SIAMFANLEquatio...

which is still very far from a professional job.

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