From df800b160990884246d73786e85b082d9b703b57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:55:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add clone() method to Field to get clean copies of it.

---
 django/db/models/fields/__init__.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
index 1fa230e1c2..6b2dc2ad21 100644
--- a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@ class Field(object):
             keywords,
         )
 
+    def clone(self):
+        """
+        Uses deconstruct() to clone a new copy of this Field.
+        Will not preserve any class attachments/attribute names.
+        """
+        name, path, args, kwargs = self.deconstruct()
+        return self.__class__(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def __eq__(self, other):
         # Needed for @total_ordering
         if isinstance(other, Field):