crab unadopt

Reverse a crab adopt operation before the changes are committed. Crab reads the original bytes from the staging area, writes full files back to disk, and removes the files from the Git index.

Synopsis

crab unadopt [OPTIONS]

crab unadopt --pattern '*.bin'
crab unadopt --json

Confirm the pre-commit boundary

crab unadopt is a pre-commit reversal. It depends on the staged chunks created by the earlier adopt operation and restores the working-tree bytes from that local state. It is not a history-rewrite command and does not recover content after the required staging data has been removed.

Inspect the path before and after restoration:

git diff --cached --name-only
crab unadopt --pattern 'models/*.bin'
git status --short

The selected paths should return to full files and leave the Git index. Review the remaining staged set before committing. A pattern restricts which detected pointers are restored; quote shell globs so Crab, rather than the shell, matches them.

Use crab undo when you want Crab to detect reversible staged pointer changes automatically. Use a Git history operation for a change that is already committed.