Revert deprecation of client.Apply

Signed-off-by: Stefan Büringer buringerst@vmware.com

Author: sbueringer

pkg/client/patch.go

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ import (
 var (
 	// Apply uses server-side apply to patch the given object.
 	//
-	// Deprecated: Use client.Client.Apply() instead.
+	// This should now only be used to patch sub resources, e.g. with client.Client.Status().Patch().
+	// Use client.Client.Apply() instead of client.Client.Patch(..., client.Apply, ...)
+	// This will be deprecated once the Apply method has been added for sub resources.
+	// See the following issue for more details: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/issues/3183
 	Apply Patch = applyPatch{}
 
 	// Merge uses the raw object as a merge patch, without modifications.