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Can you not just `docker export [imageid] > myimage.tar` and `docker import - < myimage.tar`? EDIT: from the [github issue](https://github.com/dotcloud/docker
by pault 13y ago
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-23034961 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."
- ithkuil 13y agowell, 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.
- mpasternacki 13y agoI 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.