magit-file-{rename,remove,untrack} should support acting on multiple files at once

[tarsius]

[ryanprior]

Do you picture a dired-like interface to mark and operate on files? Or maybe a dired integration of some kind? I sometimes use a workflow in dired with dired-mark-files-regexp or similar into dired-do-shell-command git rm.

[tarsius]

I have done so for magit-file-remove and magit-file-untrack, but have also decided to not do it for magit-file-rename. The latter would be quite a bit more complex and can also be done using e.g. Dired and then staging the pairs of additions and removals.

Do you picture a dired-like interface to mark and operate on files?

No, this uses Magit's usual "select multiple things of the same type using the region" selection mechanism.

[yashi]

I'm sorry to jump in but where is magit-file-remove? I've searched in the git repo but none is found. The reason I'm looking for the function is to remove a file listed in the Untracked files (4) section of Magit buffer. Would that function does what I'm looking for?

[tarsius]

There is a function named magit-file-delete. You can also press k on a file listed below "Untracked files" to "kill" it.

[jdnrg]

please reopen this feature request, it would be great.