diff --git a/.github/workflows/pages.yml b/.github/workflows/pages.yml
index bc537a7..1b5cc72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pages.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: make the sphinx docs
         run: |
-          make -C docs clean 
           # sphinx-apidoc -f -o docs/source . -H Test -e -t docs/source/_templates
           make -C docs html