add manual dispatch to specify branch for geodiff and mergin-py-client - defaults to master geodiff and install of client from PyPi branch is not specified

Author: JanCaha

.github/workflows/tests_mergin_db_sync.yaml

@@ -3,12 +3,22 @@ name: Tests for Mergin DB Sync
 on:
   push:
     paths:
-    - "test/**"
-    - "**.py"
-    - "requirements.txt"
-    - "requirements-dev.txt"
-    - "pyproject.toml"
-    - ".github/workflows/tests_mergin_db_sync.yaml"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "**.py"
+      - "requirements.txt"
+      - "requirements-dev.txt"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - ".github/workflows/tests_mergin_db_sync.yaml"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      geodiff_branch:
+        description: "Geodiff branch to compile (default: master)"
+        required: false
+        default: "master"
+      mergin_client_branch:
+        description: "Mergin Python client branch from GitHub (leave empty to install from pip)"
+        required: false
+        default: ""
 
 env:
   TEST_GEODIFF_EXE: geodiff
@@ -19,9 +29,7 @@ env:
   TEST_API_WORKSPACE: test-db-sync
 
 jobs:
-
   Tests-for-Mergin-DB-Sync:
-
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     services:
@@ -36,20 +44,19 @@ jobs:
         options: --health-cmd pg_isready --health-interval 10s --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5
 
     steps:
-
       - name: Install Geodiff
         run: |
           sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev
-          git clone https://github.com/MerginMaps/geodiff.git
+          git clone --branch ${{ inputs.geodiff_branch || 'master' }} https://github.com/MerginMaps/geodiff.git
           cd geodiff
           mkdir build && cd build
           cmake -DWITH_POSTGRESQL=TRUE ../geodiff
           sudo make install
-          sudo cp geodiff /usr/local/bin 
+          sudo cp geodiff /usr/local/bin
 
-      - name: Check Geodiff version    
+      - name: Check Geodiff version
         run: geodiff version
-        
+
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
@@ -59,6 +66,11 @@ jobs:
           python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
           python3 -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
 
+      - name: Install Mergin client from GitHub
+        if: ${{ inputs.mergin_client_branch != '' }}
+        run: |
+          python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/MerginMaps/python-api-client.git@${{ inputs.mergin_client_branch }}
+
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
           pytest test --cov=. --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered -vv