command-line for viewing a repository's network graph similar to GitHub's

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# GitHub recently "deprecated" the network view of repositories, which was a tool i relied on.
# merging this S.O. answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9074343/230851
# with some other research gets me to the command below.
# the only notable addition is setting the ordering to --date-order, to match github's network view.
#
# note!
# you'll still need to `git fetch` prior to this to view branches on the server.

git log --all --graph --date-order --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit