moby/docs/man/docker-commit.1.md
Dan Walsh a2b529ead2 --help option and help command should print to stdout not stderr
--help and help are successful commands so output should not go to error.

    QE teams have requested this change, also users doing docker help | less
    or docker run --help | less would expect this to work.

    Usage statement should only be printed when the user asks for it.
    Errors should print error message and then suggest the docker COMMAND --help
    command to see usage information.

    The current behaviour causes the user to have to search for the error message
    and sometimes scrolls right off the screen.  For example a error on a
    "docker run" command is very difficult to diagnose.

    Finally erros should always exit with a non 0 exit code, if the user
    makes a CLI error.

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> (github: rhatdan)
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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014

NAME

docker-commit - Create a new image from a container's changes

SYNOPSIS

docker commit [-a|--author[=AUTHOR]] [--help] [-m|--message[=MESSAGE]] [-p|--pause[=true]] CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]

DESCRIPTION

Using an existing container's name or ID you can create a new image.

OPTIONS

-a, --author="" Author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith hannibal@a-team.com")

--help Print usage statement

-m, --message="" Commit message

-p, --pause=true|false Pause container during commit. The default is true.

EXAMPLES

Creating a new image from an existing container

An existing Fedora based container has had Apache installed while running in interactive mode with the bash shell. Apache is also running. To create a new image run docker ps to find the container's ID and then run:

# docker commit -m="Added Apache to Fedora base image" \
  -a="A D Ministrator" 98bd7fc99854 fedora/fedora_httpd:20

HISTORY

April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and in June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au July 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au