That's what I was thinking! Alias! I like it much better. 

I certainly can't use tag because it's too ambiguous and confusing with the two meanings.

William

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> On May 31, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Sven Dowideit <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> 
> In contrib/man/md/docker-tag.1.md:
> 
> > @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ docker-tag - Tag an image in the repository
> >  IMAGE [REGISTRYHOST/][USERNAME/]NAME[:TAG]
> >  
> >  # DESCRIPTION
> > -This will tag an image in the repository.
> > +This will rename an image in the repository. This refers to the
> I'm feeling odd about 'rename' - especially how you're using it in the final eg.
> 
> the image's hash doesn't go away, its still the real identity of the image, and its kinda hard to resolve the idea that you're renaming something that may not have had a name before.
> 
> I think of it more as an alias :/
> 
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