Serve sphinx documentation for git repository on gh-pages

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash
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This gist describes how to serve sphinx documentation
for a code already existing on git using gh-pages
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First install pip
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pip install --upgrade sphinx

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Git clone the project
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git clone git@github.com:username/project.git
cd project

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Generate documentation
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mkdir docs
cd docs
sphinx-quickstart
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Make sure to separate the build and source directories and to generate a Makefile
Configure source/conf.py to your liking, edit the theme. Also edit the index.rst file to include your docs.
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mkdir -p build/html

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Clone your repository in build/html, and reinitialize it to be bare
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git clone git@github.com:username/project.git build/html
cd build/html
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
touch .nojkeyll

cd ../..
make html
cd build/html
git add .
git commit -m 'Documents to gh-pages'
git push origin gh-pages

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Change your code, push to the master branch on the repository.
Then change directory to docs, make html
Go to the html build and push the documents with a simple git push
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