diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
index d888a60063..37a53bf105 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ pages:
     - make gtags
     # We unset variables to work around a bug in some htags versions
     # which causes it to fail when the environment is large
-    - CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE= CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE= htags
+    - CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE= CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE= CI_COMMIT_DESCRIPTION= htags
         -anT --tree-view=filetree -m qemu_init
         -t "Welcome to the QEMU sourcecode"
     - mv HTML public/src