diff --git a/doc/deploy_ghpages.py b/doc/deploy_ghpages.py
index f276f08..8086a62 100644
--- a/doc/deploy_ghpages.py
+++ b/doc/deploy_ghpages.py
@@ -72,10 +72,6 @@ os.chdir("gh_pages")
 sp.check_output("echo 'https://${GH_TOKEN}:@github.com' > .git/credentials", shell=True)
 sp.check_output("git add --all ./*", shell=True)
 
-try:
-    sp.check_output("git commit -a -m 'travis bot build {} [ci skip]'".format(os.getenv("TRAVIS_COMMIT")), shell=True)
-except:
-    pass #nothing to do
-else:
-    sp.check_output("git push --force --quiet origin gh-pages", shell=True)
+sp.check_output("git commit -a -m 'travis bot build {} [ci skip]'".format(os.getenv("TRAVIS_COMMIT")), shell=True)
+sp.check_output("git push --force --quiet origin gh-pages", shell=True)