My workaround for this was to include a symbolic link to the sphinx _static directory from my root project directory. I.e. ln -s docs/_static _static. Then, from my README.md I just use a relative path to the symbolic link rather than the docs/_static directory.
My workaround for this was to include a symbolic link to the sphinx
_static
directory from my root project directory. I.e.ln -s docs/_static _static
. Then, from my README.md I just use a relative path to the symbolic link rather than thedocs/_static
directory.