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0 pointspault12y ago0 comments

Can you not just `docker export [imageid] > myimage.tar` and `docker import - < myimage.tar`?

EDIT: from the [github issue](https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/332#issuecomment-2...):

"Currently the only way to "squash" the image is to create a container from it, export that container into a raw tarball, and re-import that as an image. Unfortunately that will cause all image metadata to be lost, including its history but also ports, env, default command, maintainer info etc. So it's really not great."

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mpasternacki12y ago

I want to inherit from the base image, to keep the shared files actually shared. This is a feature. It's just the dozen layers of that inheritance that bothers me.

ithkuil12y ago

well, sometimes you do want a layered image, just not so much layered. For example, most images will be layered on top of a small number of base OS images which you don't want to download all all over again.

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