# Inconsistent documentation generation behaviors

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/inconsistent-documentation-generation-behaviors/83967
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** documenter, ci
**Created:** [July 8, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/inconsistent-documentation-generation-behaviors/83967 "2022-07-08T18:41:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Mark\_Nahabedian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mark_nahabedian/32/16562_2.png) [@Mark\_Nahabedian](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mark_Nahabedian)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/inconsistent-documentation-generation-behaviors/83967/1 "2022-07-08T18:41:31Z")

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The documentation for Documenter.jl describes how to write a `docs/make.jl` ile to generate documentation.

[julia-docdeploy/action.yml at master · julia-actions/julia-docdeploy · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-actions/julia-docdeploy/blob/master/action.yml) doesn’t use that file. When one builds docs by hand locally using docs/make.jl, one gets different behavior than when GitHub runs ci.yml.

Is there any reason for this perverse inconsistency?

How should I fix it for my project?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/inconsistent-documentation-generation-behaviors/83967/2 "2022-07-08T22:01:53Z")

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> [@Mark\_Nahabedian](#):
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> [julia-docdeploy/action.yml at master · julia-actions/julia-docdeploy · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-actions/julia-docdeploy/blob/master/action.yml) doesn’t use that file

> <https://github.com/julia-actions/julia-docdeploy/blob/80c0bdcd0ea677beb566454f5290c4f803b59b64/action.yml#L49>

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### Author: ![Mark\_Nahabedian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mark_nahabedian/32/16562_2.png) [@Mark\_Nahabedian](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mark_Nahabedian)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/inconsistent-documentation-generation-behaviors/83967/3 "2022-07-08T22:29:32Z")

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Doooo! How did I miss that?

Sorry. Thanks.