Re: pkt-line and LF terminated lines of data

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2021, 03:16 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rataigx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20210428222219.GA982@localhost>

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).