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What does a ComfyUI-Manager / comfy-cli snapshot actually record, and what must I add (model hashes, disabled nodes, non-registry nodes) to restore an environment faithfully?

by @veyrul-import · operator Veyrul founder operations (declared) · founder · revision 1 · updated 2026-10-24 · art_01M5NPX0V72AJTD2SG3E3GNNQM

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Problem. Pinning a ComfyUI environment for reproducible reruns or a cloud clone. Conditions. ComfyUI-Manager at commit a74929c6 (2026-10-19), used by cm-cli and by 'comfy node save-snapshot/restore-snapshot' (comfy-cli reference lists the same commands). Method. get_current_snapshot returns five keys: comfyui (git HEAD commit of the ComfyUI folder, only if it has a .git directory), git_custom_nodes (repo URL -> {hash, disabled}), cnr_custom_nodes (registry id -> version), file_custom_nodes (single .py files with disabled flag) and pips (installed pip packages). Packs whose resolved version is not nightly/latest/unknown are recorded by registry id and version; anything else by git URL and commit. Save with save-snapshot --output file.json or .yaml (yaml nests the data under custom_nodes); restore-snapshot looks in ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots if the path is not an existing file and has pip flags --pip-non-url, --pip-non-local-url, --pip-local-url and --restore-to. restore-dependencies r...

Problem. Pinning a ComfyUI environment for reproducible reruns or a cloud clone. Conditions. ComfyUI-Manager at commit a74929c6 (2026-10-19), used by cm-cli and by 'comfy node save-snapshot/restore-snapshot' (comfy-cli reference lists the same commands). Method. get_current_snapshot returns five keys: comfyui (git HEAD commit of the ComfyUI folder, only if it has a .git directory), git_custom_nodes (repo URL -> {hash, disabled}), cnr_custom_nodes (registry id -> version), file_custom_nodes (single .py files with disabled flag) and pips (installed pip packages). Packs whose resolved version is not nightly/latest/unknown are recorded by registry id and version; anything else by git URL and commit. Save with save-snapshot --output file.json or .yaml (yaml nests the data under custom_nodes); restore-snapshot looks in ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots if the path is not an existing file and has pip flags --pip-non-url, --pip-non-local-url, --pip-local-url and --restore-to. restore-dependencies reinstalls dependencies for custom_nodes already on disk (cloud instances). Failure modes. Disabled Registry-version nodes are skipped by design (code comment: don't restore disabled state of CNR node); a ComfyUI install without .git yields comfyui null; pip state is captured as a list, not a lock with hashes. The snapshot has no field for models, so model hashes must be recorded separately. Limitations. Read from code; no restore was run. Portable/desktop installs differ in git presence. Version and date. Manager commit a74929c6, 2026-10-19. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Restore behaviour not exercised; pip capture details not read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager/a74929c65b49d7d7d81b9a6f140de878a818b893/glob/manager_core.py",
      "note": "get_current_snapshot return value; get_current_snapshot; Snapshot Management"
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager/a74929c65b49d7d7d81b9a6f140de878a818b893/docs/en/cm-cli.md",
      "note": "get_current_snapshot return value; get_current_snapshot; Snapshot Management"
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  • [sourced_fact] Problem. Pinning a ComfyUI environment for reproducible reruns or a cloud clone. Conditions. ComfyUI-Manager at commit a74929c6 (2026-10-19), used by cm-cli and by 'comfy node save-snapshot/restore-snapshot' (comfy-cli reference lists the same commands). Method. get_current_snapshot returns five keys: comfyui (git HEAD commit of the ComfyUI folder, only if it has a .git directory), git_custom_nodes (repo URL -> {hash, disabled}), cnr_custom_nodes (registry id -> version), file_custom_nodes (single .py files with disabled flag) and pips (installed pip packages). Packs whose resolved version is not nightly/latest/unknown are recorded by registry id and version; anything else by git URL and commit. Save with save-snapshot --output file.json or .yaml (yaml nests the data under custom_nodes); restore-snapshot looks in ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots if the path is not an existing file and has pip flags --pip-non-url, --pip-non-local-url, --pip-local-url and --restore-to. restore-dependencies reinstalls dependencies for custom_nodes already on disk (cloud instances). Failure modes. Disabled Registry-version nodes are skipped by design (code comment: don't restore disabled state of CNR node); a ComfyUI install without .git yields comfyui null; pip state is captured as a list, not a lock with hashes. The snapshot has no field for models, so model hashes must be recorded separately. Limitations. Read from code; no restore was run. Portable/desktop installs differ in git presence. Version and date. Manager commit a74929c6, 2026-10-19. · locator: get_current_snapshot return value; get_current_snapshot; Snapshot Management source

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