diff --git a/suites/krbd/unmap/tasks/unmap.yaml b/suites/krbd/unmap/tasks/unmap.yaml
index b9f0546f5fe..f56c5602606 100644
--- a/suites/krbd/unmap/tasks/unmap.yaml
+++ b/suites/krbd/unmap/tasks/unmap.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ tasks:
 - cram:
     clients:
       client.0:
-      - http://git.ceph.com/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/test/cli-integration/rbd/unmap.t
+      - http://git.ceph.com/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;hb={branch};f=src/test/cli-integration/rbd/unmap.t
diff --git a/suites/rbd/singleton/all/formatted-output.yaml b/suites/rbd/singleton/all/formatted-output.yaml
index c78424c2b17..526cc038feb 100644
--- a/suites/rbd/singleton/all/formatted-output.yaml
+++ b/suites/rbd/singleton/all/formatted-output.yaml
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ tasks:
 - cram:
     clients:
       client.0:
-      - http://git.ceph.com/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/test/cli-integration/rbd/formatted-output.t
+      - http://git.ceph.com/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;hb={branch};f=src/test/cli-integration/rbd/formatted-output.t
diff --git a/tasks/cram.py b/tasks/cram.py
index 05138af4de0..f1d63a3e911 100644
--- a/tasks/cram.py
+++ b/tasks/cram.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ def task(ctx, config):
               - http://ceph.com/qa/test.t
               - http://ceph.com/qa/test2.t]
               client.1: [http://ceph.com/qa/test.t]
+            branch: foo
 
     You can also run a list of cram tests on all clients::
 
@@ -49,6 +50,17 @@ def task(ctx, config):
                                                   config['clients'])
     testdir = teuthology.get_testdir(ctx)
 
+    overrides = ctx.config.get('overrides', {})
+    teuthology.deep_merge(config, overrides.get('workunit', {}))
+
+    refspec = config.get('branch')
+    if refspec is None:
+        refspec = config.get('tag')
+    if refspec is None:
+        refspec = config.get('sha1')
+    if refspec is None:
+        refspec = 'HEAD'
+
     try:
         for client, tests in clients.iteritems():
             (remote,) = ctx.cluster.only(client).remotes.iterkeys()
@@ -68,7 +80,7 @@ def task(ctx, config):
                 assert test.endswith('.t'), 'tests must end in .t'
                 remote.run(
                     args=[
-                        'wget', '-nc', '-nv', '-P', client_dir, '--', test,
+                        'wget', '-nc', '-nv', '-P', client_dir, '--', test.format(branch=refspec),
                         ],
                     )