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Clarify stateful #dockter comment
The README says:
Dockter does this by looking for a special # dockter comment in a Dockerfile. Instead of throwing away layers, it executes all instructions after this comment in the same layer - thus reusing packages that were previously installed.
This explanation was a bit difficult to understand, as I thought it was an alternate implementation of the --squash
option. That would create a new single layer in which to execute all images, but a new one for each build. This instead will reuse an existing layer, overwriting the contents.
Some thoughts to polish this feature:
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# dockter
does not convey the meaning of this, a more specific annotation like# dockter: stateful
could make it easier to search for documentation about this option - clarify in README this is going to overwrite an existing, single layer
- clarify where this state is kept, in the Docker daemon's state files, I guess
- clarify rolling back to a previous version of the dependencies will be slower as the trade-off, having to modify the existing, single layer
@giorgiosironi : thanks for the great suggestions! I've added this issue to the 1.0.0 milestone.