fix: retry on errors when watching pods #9373
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Fixes: #8658
Description
If timeout (or some network error) occurs while waiting for a pod initialization or termination event, e.g. when build takes a long time, skaffold becomes stuck and never finishes the operation. Use retry watcher to handle the errors gracefully.
This PR is based on the patch I posted in #8658 last year; never got any feedback on it there so decided to go ahead. I'm using this patch since then and it works fine on my end. To reiterate,
I only managed to fix exising unit test, not add any new test(s), as I'm not at all comfortable with Go. If that's an issue, I'm okay with someone else picking this up.