copying/cloning vertices?

[johannespetrat]

I have found myself wanting to create copies of a vertex e.g. if I want to use the same prior distribution for different vertices. Is there a simple way to do this in Java or would vertices have to implement their own .clone() or .copy() method to create a deep copy?

[GeorgeNash]

Have created a JIRA for this.

[christophernorth]

We've had another request for this (albeit for shallow copy in that case).