Very sad, considering that reasonable people with less talent for making themselves unhappy can simply start using another name and email, accept that their old

Very sad, considering that reasonable people with less talent for making themselves unhappy can simply start using another name and email, accept that their old commits are associated with their old name, and recognize that as far as DVCS features go integrity trumps flexibility and changing names is such a bad idea that being reminded of bad times is a necessary sacrifice.