The comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old

The comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old and new HEADs. But no one did - instead they dogpiled on the maintainer who got doxed and had their home address posted.