error: Can't cherry-pick into empty head

quot;$ git status") I tried: new-orphan $ git rev-list --reverse master -- my-folder/ | git cherry-pick --stdin as suggested https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cherry-pick, but what I get is "error: Can't cherry-pick into empty head". What I don't really understand is: 1)

Re: error: Can't cherry-pick into empty head

new-orphan $ git rm --cached -r . > new-orphan $ git clean -df > > After confirming that I'm in a clean state (with "$ git status") I tried: > > new-orphan $ git rev-list --reverse master -- my-folder/ | git > cherry-pick --stdin > > as suggest