diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/build_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
index 355e32c8465..2b29a81c45f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ on:
         description: Patch directory name from where to apply existing patches.
         required: true
         type: string
+      repository:
+        description: "Repository to checkout. Otherwise, defaults to `github.repository`."
+        type: string
+      ref:
+        description: "Branch, tag or SHA to checkout. Defaults to the reference or SHA that triggered the workflow."
+        type: string
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       amdgpu_family:
@@ -113,6 +119,9 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
 
       - name: Configure Git Identity
         run: |
@@ -208,6 +217,9 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checking out repository
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
 
       - name: Generating target to run
         id: configure
@@ -228,6 +240,8 @@ jobs:
       python_version: ${{ inputs.python_version }}
       torch_version: ${{ needs.build_pytorch_wheels.outputs.torch_version }}
       pytorch_version: ${{ inputs.pytorch_version }}
+      repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+      ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
 
   upload_pytorch_wheels:
     name: Release PyTorch Wheels to S3
@@ -245,6 +259,9 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
 
       - name: Configure AWS Credentials
         if: always()
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_packages.yml b/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_packages.yml
index c7ae634441c..8a7ebb39b40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_packages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_packages.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ on:
         description: "Staging subdirectory to push the packages"
         type: string
         default: "v2-staging"
+      repository:
+        description: "Repository to checkout. Otherwise, defaults to `github.repository`."
+        type: string
+      ref:
+        description: "Branch, tag or SHA to checkout. Defaults to the reference or SHA that triggered the workflow."
+        type: string
   # Trigger manually (typically to test the workflow or manually build a release [candidate])
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
@@ -63,6 +69,10 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
+
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
         with:
@@ -125,9 +135,14 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: "Checking out repository"
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
+
       - uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
+
       # TODO: We shouldn't be using a cache on actual release branches, but it
       # really helps for iteration time.
       - name: Enable cache
@@ -245,7 +260,8 @@ jobs:
               "s3_staging_subdir": "${{ env.S3_STAGING_SUBDIR }}",
               "cloudfront_url": "${{ needs.setup_metadata.outputs.cloudfront_url }}",
               "cloudfront_staging_url": "${{ needs.setup_metadata.outputs.cloudfront_staging_url }}",
-              "rocm_version": "${{ needs.setup_metadata.outputs.version }}"
+              "rocm_version": "${{ needs.setup_metadata.outputs.version }}",
+              "ref": "${{ inputs.ref || '' }}"
             }
 
       - name: Save cache
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
index 41c5362c587..6f42959dc57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_portable_linux_pytorch_wheels.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ on:
       rocm_version:
         description: ROCm version to pip install
         type: string
+      ref:
+        description: "Branch, tag or SHA to checkout. Defaults to the reference or SHA that triggered the workflow."
+        type: string
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       amdgpu_family:
@@ -63,6 +66,10 @@ on:
       rocm_version:
         description: ROCm version to pip install
         type: string
+      ref:
+        description: "Branch, tag or SHA to checkout. Defaults to the reference or SHA that triggered the workflow."
+        type: string
+        default: ''
 
 
 permissions:
@@ -95,3 +102,4 @@ jobs:
       rocm_version: ${{ inputs.rocm_version }}
       pytorch_version: ${{ matrix.pytorch_version }}
       pytorch_patchset: ${{ matrix.pytorch_patchset }}
+      ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_pytorch_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/test_pytorch_wheels.yml
index a0a35ffd3e8..fc5509db646 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_pytorch_wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_pytorch_wheels.yml
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ on:
         description: PyTorch version to checkout. ("nightly", or "release/2.7")
         type: string
         default: "release/2.7"
+      repository:
+        description: "Repository to checkout. Otherwise, defaults to `github.repository`."
+        type: string
+      ref:
+        description: "Branch, tag or SHA to checkout. Defaults to the reference or SHA that triggered the workflow."
+        type: string
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -75,6 +81,9 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ inputs.repository || github.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref || '' }}
 
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0