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File: engine/reference/commandline/build.md
The documentation about docker build's "-f" flag mentions the following:
If a relative path is specified then it is interpreted as relative to the root of the context.
This is false and misleading. It looks like if a relative path is specified, it is searched as being relative to the current directory, not the root of the context.
An example of the correct usage is also on the same page, when it mentions that the two docker build commands do the same thing:
$ cd /home/me/myapp/some/dir/really/deep
$ docker build -f /home/me/myapp/dockerfiles/debug /home/me/myapp
$ docker build -f ../../../../dockerfiles/debug /home/me/myapp
It is visible there that the second docker build uses a relative path that is relative to the current directory, not the root of the context.
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cristi8 commentedon Mar 9, 2022
This was opened more than 3 years ago. It's a simple false statement in the docs.
I even made a PR a month ago.
Why isn't this being fixed / PR merged?
docker-robott commentedon Nov 30, 2022
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cristi8 commentedon Dec 6, 2022
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The documentation still needs fixing
docker-robott commentedon Mar 6, 2023
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cristi8 commentedon Mar 6, 2023
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@nigelpoulton any news about this?
The documentation of
docker buildstill needs fixingnigelpoulton commentedon Mar 6, 2023
@cristi8 I think this was incorrectly assigned to me. I'm not working on Docker docs.
docker-robott commentedon Jun 4, 2023
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