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Welcome to Read the Docs
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Purpose
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`Read the Docs`_ hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports
Sphinx_ docs written with reStructuredText_, and can pull from your Subversion_,
Bazaar_, Git_, and Mercurial_ repositories.
Then we build documentation and host it for you.
Think of it as *Continuous Documentation*.
.. _Read the docs: http://readthedocs.org/
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html
.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
.. _Bazaar: http://bazaar.canonical.com/
.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/
.. _Mercurial: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
Documentation for RTD
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You will find complete documentation for setting up your project at `the Read
the Docs site`_.
.. _the Read the Docs site: https://docs.readthedocs.io/
Contributing
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You can find information about contributing to Read the Docs at our `Contribution page <http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribute.html>`_.
Quickstart for GitHub-Hosted Projects
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By the end of this quickstart, you will have a new project automatically updated
when you push to GitHub.
#. Create an account on `Read the Docs`_. You will get an email verifying your
email address which you should accept within 7 days.
#. Log in and click on "Import a Project".
#. Click "Connect to GitHub" in order to connect your account's repositories to GitHub.
#. When prompted on GitHub, give access to your account.
#. Click "Import a Repository" and select any desired repository.
#. Change any information if desired and click "Next".
#. All done. Commit away and your project will auto-update.
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:alt: build status
:scale: 100%
:target: https://travis-ci.org/rtfd/readthedocs.org
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:alt: Documentation Status
:scale: 100%
:target: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
License
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`MIT`_ © 2010-2017 Read the Docs, Inc & contributors
.. _MIT: LICENSE