diff --git a/commands.go b/commands.go
index feab558259b3f8c56919cb2c8b2ad399be93ff17..d12a5755e450bd6fb372c28db478b3792ac63b76 100644
--- a/commands.go
+++ b/commands.go
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ func mkBuildContext(dockerfile string, files [][2]string) (Archive, error) {
 
 func (cli *DockerCli) CmdBuild(args ...string) error {
 	cmd := Subcmd("build", "[OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -", "Build a new container image from the source code at PATH")
-	tag := cmd.String("t", "", "Tag to be applied to the resulting image in case of success")
+	tag := cmd.String("t", "", "Repository name to be applied to the resulting image in case of success")
 	if err := cmd.Parse(args); err != nil {
 		return nil
 	}
diff --git a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.0.rst b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.0.rst
index a78933709365e2ff2e2f4e612cd3103684fb2ed7..f2e9a99939aa3c25674ccce0f010eed41decacb0 100644
--- a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.0.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.0.rst
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ Build an image from Dockerfile via stdin
 	   
 	   {{ STREAM }}
 
-	:query t: tag to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
+	:query t: repository name to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
 	:statuscode 200: no error
         :statuscode 500: server error
 
diff --git a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.2.rst b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.2.rst
index a6c2c319201e83e772312baaa33e2a9bc3448be3..bec56774252ccecbad5f9ccddc4c96b50474dfee 100644
--- a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.2.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.2.rst
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ Build an image from Dockerfile via stdin
 	   
 	   {{ STREAM }}
 
-	:query t: tag to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
+	:query t: repository name to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
 	:query remote: resource to fetch, as URI
 	:statuscode 200: no error
         :statuscode 500: server error
diff --git a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.3.rst b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.3.rst
index b0955ce496ed748397452abd24056b6f70039786..efd695b82cd9abec7b748b8cb1afdd6f91af1cba 100644
--- a/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.3.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/api/docker_remote_api_v1.3.rst
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ Build an image from Dockerfile via stdin
 
         The Content-type header should be set to "application/tar".
 
-	:query t: tag to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
+	:query t: repository name to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
 	:statuscode 200: no error
         :statuscode 500: server error
 
diff --git a/docs/sources/commandline/command/build.rst b/docs/sources/commandline/command/build.rst
index 1645002ba23aebc0adeadf97ed03554110d0dde9..aeba8cc8994c1ce9a2f56cb0329124bb90de6b35 100644
--- a/docs/sources/commandline/command/build.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/commandline/command/build.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
     Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
     Build a new container image from the source code at PATH
-      -t="": Tag to be applied to the resulting image in case of success.
+      -t="": Repository name to be applied to the resulting image in case of success.
     When a single Dockerfile is given as URL, then no context is set. When a git repository is set as URL, the repository is used as context