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diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceFeature.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceFeature.java
index fd240b9..094e060 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceFeature.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceFeature.java
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ public class SequenceFeature
 
     public SequenceFeature()
     {}
+    /**
+     * Constructs a duplicate feature. 
+     * Note: Uses clone on the otherDetails so only shallow copies are made 
+     * of additional properties and method will silently fail if unclonable 
+     * objects are found in the hash.
+     * @param cpy
+     */
     public SequenceFeature(SequenceFeature cpy) {
         if (cpy!=null) {
             begin = cpy.begin;