From 3004f93243bb2c35e99820f8e5bf530013dca067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Kravcenko Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:30:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(readme): Add difference between pip freeze --- README.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index bbb71b8..6ed315f 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -35,4 +35,9 @@ Example $ pipreqs /home/project/location Successfuly saved requirements file in: /home/project/location/requirements.txt +Why not pip freeze? +------------------- +- ``pip freeze`` only saves the packages that are installed with ``pip install`` in your environment. +- pip freeze saves all packages in the environment including those that you don't use in your current project. (if you don't have virtualenv) +- and sometimes you just need to create requiremetns.txt for a new project without installing modules.