Each may contain wildcards and matching will be done using Go’s filepath.Match rules. For example:

ADD hom* /mydir/        # adds all files starting with "hom"
ADD hom?.txt /mydir/    # ? is replaced with any single character, e.g., "home.txt"

The is an absolute path, or a path relative to WORKDIR, into which the source will be copied inside the destination container.

ADD test relativeDir/          # adds "test" to `WORKDIR`/relativeDir/
ADD test /absoluteDir/         # adds "test" to /absoluteDir/

If is a local tar archive in a recognized compression format (identity, gzip, bzip2 or xz) then it is unpacked as a directory. Resources from remote URLs are not decompressed. When a directory is copied or unpacked, it has the same behavior as tar -x, the result is the union of:

• whatever existed at the destination path and
• The contents of the source tree, with conflicts resolved in favor of “2.” on a file-by-file basis.