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GitHub Action

Sphinx to GitHub Pages

2.1

Sphinx to GitHub Pages

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Sphinx to GitHub Pages

GitHub Action to deploy Sphinx documentation to GitHub Pages

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Sphinx to GitHub Pages

uses: sphinx-notes/pages@2.1

Learn more about this action in sphinx-notes/pages

Choose a version

Sphinx to GitHub Pages V2

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Help you deploying your Sphinx documentation to Github Pages.

Usage

This action only help you build and commit Sphinx documentation to gh-pages, branch. So we need some other actions:

  • action/setup-python for installing python and pip
  • actions/checkout for checking out git repository
  • ad-m/github-push-action for pushing site to remote

So your workflow file should be:

name: Pages
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, you will failed to push refs to dest repo
    - name: Build and Commit
      uses: sphinx-notes/pages@v2
    - name: Push changes
      uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
      with:
        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        branch: gh-pages

Inputs

Input Default Required Description
documentation_path './docs' false Relative path under repository to documentation source files
target_branch 'gh-pages' false Git branch where assets will be deployed
target_path '.' false Directory in Github Pages where Sphinx Pages will be placed
repository_path '.' false Relative path under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE to place the repository. You not need to set this Input unless you checkout the repository to a custom path
requirements_path '' false Relative path under $repository_path to pip requirements file
sphinx_version '' false Custom version of Sphinx

Examples

The following repository's pages are built by this action:

You can found the workflow file in their repository.

Tips

Copy extra files to site

Use Sphinx confval html_extra_path.