diff --git a/docs/sources/use/builder.rst b/docs/sources/use/builder.rst
index e48f3f2a48..18c52ec09f 100644
--- a/docs/sources/use/builder.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/use/builder.rst
@@ -221,8 +221,16 @@ destination container.
 All new files and directories are created with mode 0755, uid and gid
 0.
 
+.. note::
+   if you build using STDIN (``docker build - < somefile``), there is no build 
+   context, so the Dockerfile cannot contain an ADD statement.
+
 The copy obeys the following rules:
 
+* The ``<src>`` path must be inside the *context* of the build; you cannot 
+  ``ADD ../something /something``, because the first step of a 
+  ``docker build`` is to send the context directory (and subdirectories) to 
+  the docker daemon.
 * If ``<src>`` is a URL and ``<dest>`` does not end with a trailing slash,
   then a file is downloaded from the URL and copied to ``<dest>``.
 * If ``<src>`` is a URL and ``<dest>`` does end with a trailing slash,