diff --git a/spring-cloud-build.html b/spring-cloud-build.html
index 2234c881..fe8251ed 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-build.html
+++ b/spring-cloud-build.html
@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ correspond to the following guides in Spring Guides org.</p>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You can skip this by either not adding the <code>guides</code> profile, or passing the <code>-DskipGuides</code> system property when the profile is turned on.</p>
 </div>
+<div class="paragraph">
+<p>You can configure the project version passed to guides via the <code>guides-project.version</code> (defaults to <code>${project.version}</code>). The phase at which guides get updated can be configured by <code>guides-update.phase</code> (defaults to <code>deploy</code>).</p>
+</div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
diff --git a/update-guides.sh b/update-guides.sh
index def8399c..e575ee2c 100644
--- a/update-guides.sh
+++ b/update-guides.sh
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ function iterate_over_guides() {
 
 function commit_and_push_new_guide_contents() {
     "${GIT_BIN}" add .
-    "${GIT_BIN}" commit -m "Updating guides"
-    "${GIT_BIN}" push origin master
+    "${GIT_BIN}" commit -m "Updating guides" || echo "Nothing to commit"
+    "${GIT_BIN}" push origin master || echo "Nothing to push"
 }
 
 function copy_new_guide() {