[Tutor] moving a virtual environment to a new machine

[Anil Felipe Duggirala]

hello,

When I am moving to a new machine, and I have python projects that are 
working with particular virtual environments. What is the best practice 
to recreate these virtual environments in the new machine. Assume, for 
example, that I will be working on the same operating system on the new 
machine.

I have tried just copying the venv folders to a usb pendrive, but there 
appear to always be symlinks or some kind of links that are not easily 
copied (they may be in a system folder).

Will simply creating a new environment (in the new machine) an pip 
installing the required packages create a "practically identical" 
virtual environment? does git serve any purpose in achieving this?

thank you,