Updated CLI documentation for docker pull with notes on specifying URL
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon (github: mheon)
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ Running `docker ps` showing 2 linked containers.
## pull
- Usage: docker pull NAME[:TAG]
+ Usage: docker pull [REGISTRY_PATH/]NAME[:TAG]
Pull an image or a repository from the registry
@@ -745,6 +745,11 @@ Most of your images will be created on top of a base image from the
[Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com) contains many pre-built images that you
can `pull` and try without needing to define and configure your own.
+It is also possible to manually specify the path of a registry to pull from.
+For example, if you have set up a local registry, you can specify its path to
+pull from it. A repository path is similar to a URL, but does not contain
+a protocol specifier (https://, for example).
+
To download a particular image, or set of images (i.e., a repository),
use `docker pull`:
@@ -752,8 +757,11 @@ use `docker pull`:
# will pull all the images in the debian repository
$ docker pull debian:testing
# will pull only the image named debian:testing and any intermediate layers
- # it is based on. (typically the empty `scratch` image, a MAINTAINERs layer,
- # and the un-tared base.
+ # it is based on. (Typically the empty `scratch` image, a MAINTAINERs layer,
+ # and the un-tarred base).
+ $ docker pull registry.hub.docker.com/debian
+ # manually specifies the path to the default Docker registry. This could
+ # be replaced with the path to a local registry to pull from another source.
## push
