diff --git a/.github/workflows/respec.yaml b/.github/workflows/respec.yaml
index 8f7ce116f4..137344cc2e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/respec.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/respec.yaml
@@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: npm ci
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        ref: main
-        path: docs/deploy
-
     - name: run main script
       run: scripts/md2html/build.sh
 
@@ -49,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
         branch: update-respec-version
         base: main
         delete-branch: true
-        path: docs/deploy
+        path: docs
         labels: Housekeeping
         reviewers: TSC
         title: Update ReSpec versions
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a19835db8f..eff8bf43c3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@
 target
 atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
 node_modules/
-deploy/
 history
 Gemfile.lock
diff --git a/docs/.gitignore b/docs/.gitignore
index 42ff7bf226..57510a2be4 100644
--- a/docs/.gitignore
+++ b/docs/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 _site/
-deploy/
diff --git a/scripts/md2html/build.sh b/scripts/md2html/build.sh
index e5ba804407..0c0412f3d5 100755
--- a/scripts/md2html/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/md2html/build.sh
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 # run this script from the root of the repo. It is designed to be run by a GitHub workflow.
 # It contains bashisms
 
-mkdir -p deploy/oas
-mkdir -p deploy/js
-
 cd scripts/md2html
 mkdir -p history
 cat > history/MAINTAINERS_v2.0.md <<EOF
@@ -33,18 +30,18 @@ cp history/MAINTAINERS_v3.0.2.md history/MAINTAINERS_v3.0.3.md
 cp history/MAINTAINERS_v3.0.2.md history/MAINTAINERS_v3.1.0.md
 # add lines for 3.0.4, 3.1.1, ...
 
-cp -p js/* ../../deploy/js 2> /dev/null
-cp -p markdown/* ../../deploy/ 2> /dev/null
+cp -p js/* ../../docs/js 2> /dev/null
+cp -p markdown/* ../../docs/ 2> /dev/null
 
 latest=`git describe --abbrev=0 --tags`
 latestCopied=none
 for filename in ../../versions/[23456789].*.md ; do
   version=$(basename "$filename" .md)
-  node md2html.js --respec --maintainers ./history/MAINTAINERS_v$version.md ${filename} > ../../deploy/oas/v$version.html
+  node md2html.js --respec --maintainers ./history/MAINTAINERS_v$version.md ${filename} > ../../docs/oas/v$version.html
   if [ $version = $latest ]; then
     if [[ ${version} != *"rc"* ]];then
       # version is not a Release Candidate
-      cp -p ../../deploy/oas/v$version.html ../../deploy/oas/latest.html
+      cp -p ../../docs/oas/v$version.html ../../docs/oas/latest.html
       latestCopied=v$version
     fi
   fi