@@ -231,6 +231,26 @@ Exclusion patterns match files or directories relative to `PATH` that

 will be excluded from the context. Globbing is done using Go's

 [filepath.Match](http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath#Match) rules.

+Please note that `.dockerignore` files in other subdirectories are considered as 

+normal files. Filepaths in .dockerignore are absolute with the current directory

+as the root. Wildcards are allowed but the search is not recursive.

+

+### Example .dockerignore file 

+    */temp*

+    */*/temp*

+    temp?

+

+The first line above `*/temp*`, would ignore all files with names starting with

+`temp` from any subdirectory below the root directory, for example file named 

+`/somedir/temporary.txt` will be ignored. The second line `*/*/temp*`, will  

+ignore files starting with name `temp` from any subdirectory that is two levels

+below the root directory, for example a file `/somedir/subdir/temporary.txt` is 

+ignored in this case. The last line in the above example `temp?`, will ignore 

+the files that match the pattern from the root directory, for example files 

+`tempa`, `tempb` are ignored from the root directory. Currently  there is no

+support for regular expressions, formats like `[^temp*]` are ignored.

+

+

 See also:

 [*Dockerfile Reference*](/reference/builder).