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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 40529, 40630) propagate explicit nulls in apply Rebase of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35496 on top of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40260 The client-side propagation of the raw value is no longer needed, since the client is preserving the original object in unstructured form (explicit nulls are preserved). Kept tests and CreateThreeWayMergePatch changes from https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35496 ```release-note kubectl apply now supports explicitly clearing values not present in the config by setting them to null ``` - [x] Clean up orphaned objects in test-cmd to preserve pre- and post- conditions - [x] improve CreateThreeWayMergePatch test to not filter based on string comparison to test name