sync: Fix locking problems during merge when annex.pidlock is set
Presumably git merge sometimes needs to verifiy if a worktree file is
modified, and so will then run git-annex filter-process which would try to
take the pid lock. And for whatever reason, git-annex sync already had the
pidlock held. I have not replicated that, but it does make enough sense to
deploy the workaround.
Like I said back in commit
7bdb0cdc0d6f35d3835e57c3a34740cc98f89719,
Arguably, it would be better to have a way to make any process git-annex
runs have the env var set. But then it would need to take the pid lock
when running any and all processes, and that would be a problem when
git-annex runs two processes concurrently. So, I'm left doing it ad-hoc
in places where git-annex really does run a child process, directly
or indirectly via a particular git command.
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