diff --git a/.gitpod.yml b/.gitpod.yml
index f8963640..157da39e 100644
--- a/.gitpod.yml
+++ b/.gitpod.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 tasks:
   - init: |
       pip3 install sphinx-autobuild
-      pip3 install -r docs/doc-requirements.txt
+      pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt
       pip3 install -e.
     command: |
       sphinx-autobuild docs/source/ docs/build/html/
diff --git a/docs/doc-requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from docs/doc-requirements.txt
rename to docs/requirements.txt
diff --git a/docs/source/contributing/contributing.md b/docs/source/contributing/contributing.md
index 96859a6b..98075dd7 100644
--- a/docs/source/contributing/contributing.md
+++ b/docs/source/contributing/contributing.md
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ python3 -m venv .
 source bin/activate
 pip3 install -e .
 pip3 install -r dev-requirements.txt
-pip3 install -r docs/doc-requirements.txt
+pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt
 pip3 install black
 ```
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Then you are good to go!
 If you only changed the documentation, you can also build the documentation locally using `sphinx` .
 
 ```bash
-pip install -r docs/doc-requirements.txt
+pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
 
 cd docs/
 make html
diff --git a/docs/source/contributing/tasks.md b/docs/source/contributing/tasks.md
index b6602e0d..3fe47585 100644
--- a/docs/source/contributing/tasks.md
+++ b/docs/source/contributing/tasks.md
@@ -155,18 +155,6 @@ release on the [GitHub repository releases page](https://github.com/jupyterhub/r
 That's it!
 
 
-## Keeping the Pipfile and requirements files up to date
-
-We now have both a `dev-requirements.txt` and a `Pifile` for repo2docker, as
-such it is important to keep these in sync/up-to-date.
-
-Both files use `pip identifiers` so if you are updating for example the Sphinx version
-in the `doc-requirements.txt` (currently `Sphinx = ">=1.4,!=1.5.4"`) you can use the
-same syntax to update the Pipfile and viceversa.
-
-At the moment this has to be done manually so please make sure to update both
-files accordingly.
-
 # Uncommon tasks
 
 ## Compare generated Dockerfiles between repo2docker versions
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
index 4fae81d6..4409431e 100644
--- a/readthedocs.yml
+++ b/readthedocs.yml
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ type: sphinx
 python:
   version: 3
   setup_py_install: true
-requirements_file: docs/doc-requirements.txt
+requirements_file: docs/requirements.txt