support passing custom refs

Author: Tofel

.github/workflows/devenv-nightly-compat.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ on:
   schedule:
     - cron: "0 6 * * *" # Run daily at 6 AM
   workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      refs:
+        description: "Git refs to test, should be used only for tool testing purposes. In all other cases refs are detected automatically either from Git or RANE SOT"
+        required: false
+        type: string
 
 permissions:
   id-token: write
@@ -56,6 +61,8 @@ jobs:
       versions-back: "2"
       # patterns to exclude specific refs
       exclude-refs: "beta,rc"
+      # Git refs to test, should be used only for tool testing purposes.
+      refs: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.refs || '' }}
       # directory with your developer environment to run buildcmd and envcmd
       working-directory: "devenv"
       # directory for executing your tests, to run testcmd
@@ -84,6 +91,8 @@ jobs:
       versions-back: "2"
       # patterns to exclude specific refs
       exclude-refs: "beta,rc"
+      # Git refs to test, should be used only for tool testing purposes.
+      refs: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.refs || '' }}
       # directory with your developer environment to run buildcmd and envcmd
       working-directory: "./system-tests/tests"
       # directory for executing your tests, to run testcmd