From 0c147927d2b183b59966b141a3561539acfb3b41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Stoelinga <sammiestoel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:05:58 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation format of environment variable

This fixes #277
---
 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd07a011..9795f620 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ to those for the `docker run` command except it doesn't support the
 attach options (`-a`). See "Port bindings" and "Using volumes" below for
 more information on how to create port bindings and volume mappings.
 
+The `environment` variable accepts a dictionary or a list of strings
+in the following format `["PASSWORD=xxx"]` or `{"PASSWORD": "xxx"}`.
+
 `volumes_from` and `dns` arguments raise TypeError exception if they are used
 against v1.10 of docker remote API. Those arguments should be passed to
 `start()` instead.