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Add faq entry about re-use of environments #2789

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Add faq entry about re-use of environments - by :user:`jugmac00`.
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Expand Up @@ -121,6 +121,23 @@ tox 4 -- output changes
- We now use colors for reporting, to help make the output easier to read for humans. This can be disabled via the
``TERM=dumb`` or ``NO_COLOR=1`` environment variables, or the ``--colored no`` CLI argument.

tox 4 -- re-use of environments
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

- It is no longer possible to re-use environments. While this might have been possible with tox version 3, this
behavior was never supported, and possibly caused wrong results as illustrated in the following example.

.. code-block:: ini

[testenv]
envdir = .tox/venv

[testenv:a]
deps = pytest>7

[testenv:b]
deps = pytest<7

New features in tox 4
---------------------
Here is a non-exhaustive list of these.
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