Build and deploy documentation for Pyscaffold-based projects on GitHub Pages.

GitHub Action to automatically build the documentation of a Python project based on Pyscaffold and publish it on GitHub Pages.

See Repository pyscaffold-gh-pages-deploy-test for a demo project generating documentation on Github Pages.

Individual steps used by this GitHub Action:

1. Install dependencies (tox)
2. Configure git
3. Create branch gh-pages in the repository if it doesn't exist. Warning: if the branch exists already, it will be overwritten
4. Checkout the main branch
5. Build documentation using tox -e docs
6. Push the documentation to the gh-pages branch

You can add this action to your GitHub Workflow by adding a YAML file with the name gh-pages-deploy.yml in the folder .github/workflows of your repo with following content:

name: gh-pages-deploy
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  gh-pages-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: 3.8
      - name: Deploy docs to GitHub Pages
        uses: Kopfstein/pyscaffold-gh-pages-deploy@latest

This project was developed using information and/or code snippets from following projects. Thanks to the authors of these projects for creating open source software!

• simple-github-pages-deploy-action
• action-sphinx-docs-to-gh-pages