After checking out an orphan branch, commits view is blank and marked as "detached HEAD"

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Given

In a repo with branches commits, check out a new orphan branch

git checkout --orphan=my-orphan-branch

Expected

Fork's commit view is the same as before, but labelled as being on the branch my-orphan-branch

Actual

Fork's commit view is blank, and is labelled with "detached HEAD"