github.com/flavio/docker@v0.1.3-0.20170117145210-f63d1a6eec47/docs/reference/commandline/history.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "history" 3 description: "The history command description and usage" 4 keywords: "docker, image, history" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # history 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker history [OPTIONS] IMAGE 20 21 Show the history of an image 22 23 Options: 24 --help Print usage 25 -H, --human Print sizes and dates in human readable format (default true) 26 --no-trunc Don't truncate output 27 -q, --quiet Only show numeric IDs 28 ``` 29 30 To see how the `docker:latest` image was built: 31 32 $ docker history docker 33 IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 34 3e23a5875458 8 days ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 0 B 35 8578938dd170 8 days ago /bin/sh -c dpkg-reconfigure locales && loc 1.245 MB 36 be51b77efb42 8 days ago /bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install 338.3 MB 37 4b137612be55 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD jessie.tar.xz in / 121 MB 38 750d58736b4b 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Tianon Gravi <ad 0 B 39 511136ea3c5a 9 months ago 0 B Imported from - 40 41 To see how the `docker:apache` image was added to a container's base image: 42 43 $ docker history docker:scm 44 IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 45 2ac9d1098bf1 3 months ago /bin/bash 241.4 MB Added Apache to Fedora base image 46 88b42ffd1f7c 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:1fd8d7f9f6557cafc7 373.7 MB 47 c69cab00d6ef 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar 0 B 48 511136ea3c5a 19 months ago 0 B Imported from -