Activating a separate environment

General Usage
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how to activate a separate environment for julia 1.6.0 from julia 1.5.4?

(@v1.6) pkg> activate env1.6
  Activating new environment at `C:\Users\hermesr\env1.6\Project.toml`

(env1.6) pkg> add Plots
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\hermesr\.julia\registries\General`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\General`
   Resolving package versions...
     Cloning [02c8fc9c-b97f-50b9-bbe4-9be30ff0a78a] XML2_jll from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/XML2_jll.jl.git
ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/XML2_jll.jl.git, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: The connection with the server was terminated abnormally
)

(env1.6) pkg>
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              _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.6.0 (2021-03-24)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

(@v1.6) pkg> add C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl
     Cloning git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl`
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\hermesr\.julia\registries\General`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\General`
   Resolving package versions...
     Cloning [23fbe1c1-3f47-55db-b15f-69d7ec21a316] Latexify from https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl.git
ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl.git, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: The connection with the server was terminated abnormally
)

(@v1.6) pkg>
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Julia 1.6 will run in a different environment than Julia 1.5.4 by default - that’s what the (@v1.6) in the Pkg prompt is telling you. If you start Julia 1.5.4, it will say (@v1.5) at the prompt.