Re: pkt-line and LF terminated lines of data

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

dwh@linuxprogrammer.org writes:

> What am I missing? What should be added to this documentation that gives
> more detail on when/why/how a pkt-line would be determined to be
> non-binary and the LF stripping would occur?

There is (unfortunately) none.  What payload each packet carries is
determined by the protocol, so a man-in-the-middle who is observing
a protocol exchange without any knowledge of the protocol that runs
on top of the pkt-line layer by definition would not be able to tell
which packet is binary (as it is unaware of what exchange is made).