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@thaJeztah thaJeztah commented Aug 19, 2025

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This non-standard handling for these options was added in moby@e4c1f07 and moby@abe32de to work around a regression in Docker 1.13 that caused docker-machine to fail. Preserving quotes in such cases is expected (and standard behavior), but versions of Docker before 1.13 used a custom "mflag" package for flag parsing, and that package contained custom handling for quotes (added in moby@0e9c40e).

Given that Docker Machine reached EOL a long time ago and other options, such as docker context, have been added to configure the CLI to connect to a specific host (with corresponding TLS configuration), we can remove the special handling for these flags, as it's inconsistent with all other flags, and not worth maintaining for a tool that no longer exists.

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Remove special handling for quoted values for the `--tlscacert`, `--tlscert`, and `--tlskey` command-line flags.

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This non-standard handling for these options was added in [moby@e4c1f07]
and [moby@abe32de] to work around a regression in Docker 1.13 that caused
`docker-machine` to fail. Preserving quotes in such cases is expected (and
standard behavior), but versions of Docker before 1.13 used a custom "mflag"
package for flag parsing, and that package contained custom handling for
quotes (added in [moby@0e9c40e]).

Given that Docker Machine reached EOL a long time ago and other options,
such as `docker context`, have been added to configure the CLI to connect
to a specific host (with corresponding TLS configuration), we can remove
the special handling for these flags, as it's inconsistent with all other
flags, and not worth maintaining for a tool that no longer exists.

[moby@e4c1f07]: moby/moby@e4c1f07
[moby@abe32de]: moby/moby@abe32de
[moby@0e9c40e]: moby/moby@0e9c40e

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <[email protected]>
@thaJeztah thaJeztah force-pushed the remove_quote_handling branch from 93450e5 to 9b9d103 Compare August 19, 2025 13:21
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@thaJeztah thaJeztah added the kind/refactor PR's that refactor, or clean-up code label Aug 19, 2025
@austinvazquez austinvazquez merged commit 73d88f5 into docker:master Aug 19, 2025
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@thaJeztah thaJeztah deleted the remove_quote_handling branch August 19, 2025 18:43
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