Compose: docker-compose -f custom-filename.yml up --force-recreate does not recreate image

[nomadcanuck]

I am not sure if I am misinterpreting what the --force-recreate option is supposed to do, or if my docker-compose file syntax is incorrect/incompatible. I would greatly appreciate your insight.

Upon executing docker-compose -f custom-filename.yml up --force-recreate app or docker-compose -f custom-filename.yml up --force-recreatecontainer is not rebuilt.

custom-filename.yml:

version: '2'
services:
  app:
    container_name: myapp
    image: dirName/imageName
    build:
      context: ./
      dockerfile: dirName/Dockerfile
    depends_on:
      - db
    entrypoint: ./wait-for-db.sh db "catalina.sh run"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
  db:
    image: privateRepository/privateImage
    container_name: db

directory structure:

~/workspaces/
  |_docker/
    |_appName/
      |_custom-filename.yml
      |_dirName/
        |_Dockerfile

command line executed:

cd ~/workspaces/docker/appName
docker-compose -f custom-filename.yml up --force-recreate app

results:

Creating network "appName_default" with the default driver
Creating db
Creating app
Attaching to myapp
myapp | >> Waiting for database to start
myapp | Database is up - starting dependent containers
myapp | Sep 07, 2016 10:26:38 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener log
...

docker version:

Client:
 Version:      1.12.0
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   8eab29e
 Built:        Thu Jul 28 21:15:28 2016
 OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.12.0
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   8eab29e
 Built:        Thu Jul 28 21:15:28 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

docker-compose version:

docker-compose version 1.8.0, build f3628c7
docker-py version: 1.9.0
CPython version: 2.7.9
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016

[shin-]

--force-recreate will recreate the container, but the image will not be rebuilt if it already exists. If you want to rebuild the image, you should pass --build to your up command.

Hope that helps!