How to upload html documentation generated from sphinx to github?

Question

I just documented loads of my code and learnt how to use sphinx to generate the documentation. I want to include that into my GitHub project page but I do not know how to. Does anyone know existing tutorial or simple step to do so?

Answer 1

github will serve static content for you using their github pages feature. Essentially, you create a branch called gh-pages, into which you commit your static pages. The pages are then served at you.github.com/yourproject.

See the instructions at http://pages.github.com/.

You will likely run into an issue using Sphinx on github, because Sphinx uses directories with leading underscores. You can fix this by adding a file called .nojekyll in the the directory with the generated sphinx html.

Answer 2

John Paulett's answer is obviously correct and likely sufficient for most users already (+1).

Alternatively you might want to check out Ben Welsh's thorough tutorial Sphinx documentation on GitHub, which provides step by step instructions as well as a convenient Fabric based script/task tying those together to get you started to Quickly publish documentation alongside your code [...] via a single command.