This tool wraps the build command to build sphinx-based documentation.

This tool assists with creating the correct documentation build commands in cases including:

• Building the documentation from a Docker container
• Building versioned documentation, where the documentation builds land in subdirectories named based on the source branch

This tool should be put somewhere in your path. Then it should be run from the directory that contains the Makefile for building the documentation.

Simple usage is:

build_docs -b /path/to/doc/build/repo/some/subdirectory [-c] [-d]

Common additional flags are:
-c: Before building, run 'make clean'
-d: Use the escomp/base Docker container to build the documentation

Usage for automatically determining the subdirectory in which to build, based on the version indicated by the current branch, is:

./build_docs -r /path/to/doc/build/repo [-v DOC_VERSION]

This will build the documentation in a subdirectory of the doc build
repo, where the subdirectory is built from DOC_VERSION. If
DOC_VERSION isn't given, it will be determined based on the git
branch name in the doc source repository.

In the above example, documentation will be built in:
/path/to/doc/build/repo/versions/DOC_VERSION

This usage also accepts the optional arguments described above.