chore: deprecate apply-patches in favour of git-{import,export}-patches (#15300)

script/git-import-patches

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+from lib import git
+from lib.patches import patch_from_dir
+
+
+def main(argv):
+  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+  parser.add_argument("patch_dir",
+      help="directory containing patches to apply")
+  parser.add_argument("-3", "--3way",
+      action="store_true", dest='threeway',
+      help="use 3-way merge to resolve conflicts")
+  args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+  git.am(
+      repo='.',
+      patch_data=patch_from_dir(args.patch_dir),
+      threeway=args.threeway
+  )
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  main(sys.argv[1:])