diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d88bd91..846842b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,17 @@ virtualenv cloning script. + [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/edwardgeorge/virtualenv-clone.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/edwardgeorge/virtualenv-clone) A script for cloning a non-relocatable virtualenv. + +``` + +python -m clonevirtualenv /path/to/ /path/to/venv + +``` + Virtualenv provides a way to make virtualenv's relocatable which could then be copied as we wanted. However making a virtualenv relocatable this way breaks the no-site-packages isolation of the virtualenv as well as other aspects that @@ -32,4 +40,6 @@ It performs the following: - finally it double checks `sys.path` again and will fail if there are still paths from the old environment present. +This script clones virtual enviroments, it does not clone your python installation into a virtual environment. + NOTE: This script requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+