diff --git a/docs/sphinx_ext.py b/docs/sphinx_ext.py
index 3b525f196ff8..44c4968336fa 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx_ext.py
+++ b/docs/sphinx_ext.py
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 
 from furo.navigation import get_navigation_tree
 
-
-def resolve_git_tags(maximum_recent_versions=4):
+# set maximum_recent_versions to 3 to avoid creating too many files, which may cause failure when uploading to cloudflare
+def resolve_git_tags(maximum_recent_versions=3): 
     git = shutil.which("git")
     if git is None:
         return "latest", []