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Be clearer in docs about COPY/ADD dirs

COPY/ADD just copies the contents of dirs, not dirs themselves.
This PR tries to clear that up in the docs.

Closes #8775

Signed-off-by: Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com>
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Doug Davis 2014-11-16 05:13:14 -08:00
parent 61e4b4e1d0
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@ -420,8 +420,10 @@ The copy obeys the following rules:
appropriate filename can be discovered in this case (`http://example.com`
will not work).
- If `<src>` is a directory, the entire directory is copied, including
filesystem metadata.
- If `<src>` is a directory, the entire contents of the directory are copied,
including filesystem metadata.
> **Note**:
> The directory itself is not copied, just its contents.
- If `<src>` is a *local* tar archive in a recognized compression format
(identity, gzip, bzip2 or xz) then it is unpacked as a directory. Resources
@ -480,8 +482,10 @@ The copy obeys the following rules:
`docker build` is to send the context directory (and subdirectories) to the
docker daemon.
- If `<src>` is a directory, the entire directory is copied, including
filesystem metadata.
- If `<src>` is a directory, the entire contents of the directory are copied,
including filesystem metadata.
> **Note**:
> The directory itself is not copied, just its contents.
- If `<src>` is any other kind of file, it is copied individually along with
its metadata. In this case, if `<dest>` ends with a trailing slash `/`, it