diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 09b7aacfc..5c6c4e7d6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ viewsite: site
 	$(VIEWHTML) site/_site/index.html
 
 # called on each darcs commit
-commithook: site
+commithook: docs
 
 # generate html versions of docs (and the hledger.org website)
 # work around pandoc not handling full rst image directive