docker-latest-history (1) Linux Manual Page

docker-history – Show the history of an image

Synopsis

docker history [–help] [-H|–human[=true]] [–no-trunc] [-q|–quiet] IMAGE

Description

Show the history of when and how an image was created.

Options

–help
  Print usage statement

-H, –human=true|false
 Print sizes and dates in human readable format. The default is true.

–no-trunc=true|false
Don’t truncate output. The default is false.

-q, –quiet=true|false
Only show numeric IDs. The default is false.

Examples

$ docker history fedora

IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT

105182bb5e8b 5 days ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:71356d2ad59aa3119d 372.7 MB

73bd853d2ea5 13 days ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar 0 B

511136ea3c5a 10 months ago 0 B Imported from –

Display comments in the image history

The docker commit command has a -m flag for adding comments to the image. These comments will be displayed in the image history.

$ sudo docker history docker:scm

IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT

2ac9d1098bf1 3 months ago /bin/bash 241.4 MB Added Apache to Fedora base image

88b42ffd1f7c 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:1fd8d7f9f6557cafc7 373.7 MB

c69cab00d6ef 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar 0 B

511136ea3c5a 19 months ago 0 B Imported from –

History

April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit [at] home.org.au>