How to rebuild and update a container without downtime with docker-compose?

Question

I enjoy a lot using docker-compose.

Eg. on my server, when I want to update my app with minor changes, I only need to git pull origin master && docker-comp

Answer 1

from the manual docker-compose restart

If you make changes to your docker-compose.yml configuration these changes will not be reflected after running this command.

you should be able to do

$docker-compose up -d --no-deps --build 

The --no-deps will not start linked services.