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Hard to understand the format patch range

Bugged 5 years ago updated 5 years ago 3

How I am supposed to know which one is the first commit and which one the second commit on the commit range?

Could give a hint like (first) (last)?

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Originally requested at: https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/423-functionality-to-create-a-range-of-patches-all-labelled-sequentially

What is "first" and "last" if the selected commits are on different branches?

Visually on the SmartGit Log graph, one of them will show above the other:

Alternatively, I think you can just put a (reversed or reverting) when it is b -> a, i.e., it is a series of revert commits. For the other one which does not have a reversed, anyone can assume is it a commit patch applying new changes, instead of reverting them: