⚖ Snapshot Diff Tool

Quick and portable diff utility to make snapshots of a folder and compare the payload.

▶️ Getting Started

1. download fscmp.exe from release page
2. open cmd.exe and cd to where the binary locates
3. run fscmp.exe --snapshot [TARGET_DIR] [SNAPSHOT_1] to make a snapshot of [TARGET_DIR] and save as [SNAPSHOT_1]
4. do something to the folder (e.g., add some files or modify its content)
5. run fscmp.exe --snapshot [TARGET_DIR] [SNAPSHOT_2] to make a snapshot of [TARGET_DIR] again and save as [SNAPSHOT_2]
6. run fscmp.exe --diff [SNAPSHOT_1] [SNAPSHOT_2] to see the diff carried by step 4

💡 Possible Use Cases

Senario	Dir to Track
see added files after installing a software	"C:\Program Files" "C:\Program Files (x86)" "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming" "C:\ProgramData"
see changed components after getting Windows service update	"C:\Windows\WinSxS"

🐞 Known Issue

C++ lib <filesystem> seems to have decoding issue when it meets some specific characters (espicial Chinese) in Windows filesystem:

exception: No mapping for the unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page.