# How to generate documentation for older versions locally

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 17, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576 "2014-02-17T05:51:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Javier\_Candeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Javier\_Candeira](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Javier_Candeira)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576/1 "2014-02-17T05:51:16Z")

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I'm back working at a site where they've decided to pin their Ansible  
version to a given commit from around Sept 25, so v1.3.0+, but it was  
not picked in any of the v1.3.x point releases. Still, pre-v1.4.

How can I generate a private documentation subsite from the git source?

Thanks,

Javier

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576/2 "2014-02-17T14:22:23Z")

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Basically checkout the SHA you want and “make webdocs” after installing python-sphinx.

Disclaimer: We are however marking any new features with “new in version”, so this shouldn’t be /quite/ needed in most cases, as you’d also be missing out on some corrections and extrapolations.

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**Author:** ![Javier\_Candeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Javier\_Candeira](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Javier_Candeira)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576/3 "2014-02-17T20:35:50Z")

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Thanks a lot.

J