Repository: kubernetes
Issue: kubectl edit: "You can run `kubectl replace -f FILE` to try this update again" misleading if user passed flags such as `--context`
Labels: kind/bug,sig/cli,needs-triage

### What happened?

I ran `kubectl --context=dev edit statefulset/kafka` and got a permissions error (my GKE user did not have appropriate permissions). I had used `--context=dev` to select a particular cluster.

After the permissions error, kubectl printed

```
You can run `kubectl replace -f /var/folders/5y/55wpzs4n79v91k_2jf35354w0000gp/T/kubectl-edit-10910983.yaml` to try this update again.
```

I fixed my permission error (by giving my GKE user appropriate permissions) and ran the command above, but I got this error:

```
Error from server (Conflict): error when replacing "/var/folders/5y/55wpzs4n79v91k_2jf35354w0000gp/T/kubectl-edit-10910983.yaml": Operation cannot be fulfilled on statefulsets.apps "kafka": StorageError: invalid object, Code: 4, Key: /registry/statefulsets/kafka-default/kafka, ResourceVersion: 0, AdditionalErrorMsg: Precondition failed: UID in precondition: 545e2602-484d-4c17-91ce-52bddf06e81e, UID in object meta: a280573a-fcd0-4771-a302-c48d1d47972f
```

That is because the original `edit` command I ran included `--context=dev` and the suggested "try again" command did not — I was sending this command to the wrong cluster!

### What did you expect to happen?

Running the command printed by `kubectl edit` would run the same operation as my original operation, not talk to a different cluster.

Either:
- kubectl recognizes that relevant options like `--context` were passed by the user and includes them in the suggested command
- kubectl recognizes that relevant options like `--context` were passed by the user and decides not to suggest a command at all if it doesn't want to reproduce them
- kubectl includes more context from the original command in the file it writes and the command it suggests uses that full context
- The message printed could explicitly call out that you need to set things like context in the same way as the original command.

From my perspective, it's not particularly obvious that you *do* have to add `--context` yourself to the follow-up command but you *don't* have to add `--namespace`. I can reason it out based on having a somewhat sophisticated mental model of k8s/kubectl but telling people to run a write command that might talk to the wrong cluster seems like something to avoid!

### How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

The issue is pretty clear from [the source](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/475ee33f698334e5b00c58d3bef4083840ec12c5/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/util/editor/editoptions.go#L400C28-L400C83): the suggested command never includes extra flags like `--context`.

### Anything else we need to know?

_No response_

### Kubernetes version

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```console
Client Version: v1.29.3
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.29.9-gke.1496000```

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### Cloud provider

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GKE
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### OS version

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```console
Darwin Davids-MacBook-Pro.local 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Thu Sep  5 20:47:01 PDT 2024; root:xnu-8796.141.3.708.1~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
```

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### Container runtime (CRI) and version (if applicable)

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### Related plugins (CNI, CSI, ...) and versions (if applicable)

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