Merging a Branch of a Branch Into Master

Question

I have a situation like this:

master
   |
    ---- new-branch-1
               |
                ---- new-branch-1.1

Will I be able to merge new-branch-1.1 back into master directly without any issues, or do I need to merge it into new-branch-1 , then merge new-branch-1 into master ? I realize I could just "try it and see what happens," but I really don't want to run into issues that could potentailly cripple my codebase. I have backups of all my repos, but if I accidentally corrupt the original (or cause any sort of issue forces me to delete the local copy) then my backup is no longer a backup and that worries me.

I do use GitHub Desktop for most of my git needs.

Answer 1

I would recommend using the github desktop pull request functionality by running:

git push origin new-branch-1.1 

and then seeing whether your changes will merge in cleanly at the bottom of the page: here is what that looks like for me: