Building custom branches

[wpotrzebowski]

Description

Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. List any dependencies that are required for this change.
Once merged it can work as explained here https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/manage-workflow-runs/manually-run-a-workflow

Fixes # (issue/issues)

How Has This Been Tested?

Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to test It until it is merged to main.
The parts of it have been tested with REST API.
Once it is merged, developers documention will be supplied with the actual screenshots.

Review Checklist:

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Documentation (check at least one)

• There is nothing that needs documenting
• Documentation changes are in this PR
• There is an issue open for the documentation (link?)

Installers

• There is a chance this will affect the installers, if so
  • Windows installer (GH artifact) has been tested (installed and worked)
  • MacOSX installer (GH artifact) has been tested (installed and worked)
  • Wheels installer (GH artifact) has been tested (installed and worked)

Licensing (untick if necessary)

• The introduced changes comply with SasView license (BSD 3-Clause)

[llimeht]

Looks good

(please rebase and squash the commits so that the accidentally included files never hit the git history)

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[llimeht]

Just did a gh workflow run --repo sasview/sasview --ref custom_builds ci.yml -f sasmodels_ref=pr-python-fq and it built sasmodels with that particular branch before feeding it into the rest of the build, so that looks good. (artifacts will be at https://github.com/SasView/sasview/actions/runs/19452421812).

The code path that the bot is talking about wasn't tested when CI was first run on this PR, as the cached wheel was used instead. I deleted the sasmodels cache to force it to build using this code path and it worked fine, so I agree the bot's review is incorrect.

# Get refs from inputs (workflow_call or workflow_dispatch) or default to master
  SASMODELS_REF="master"
  SASDATA_REF="master"
  echo "Using sasmodels ref: $SASMODELS_REF"
  echo "Using sasdata ref: $SASDATA_REF"
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