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add a warning to cpvirtualenv command docs
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@@ -157,6 +157,13 @@ Duplicate an existing virtualenv environment. The source can be an
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environment managed by virtualenvwrapper or an external environment
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.. warning::
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Copying virtual environments is not well supported. Each virtualenv
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has path information hard-coded into it, and there may be cases
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where the copy code does not know to update a particular
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file. **Use with caution.**
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Syntax::
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cpvirtualenv ENVNAME [TARGETENVNAME]

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