test: add basic CI testing against t PRs via new Github Action

.github/workflows/validation-gen-ci-test.yml

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+name: validation-gen CI Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - "validation-gen"
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Set up Go
+      uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+      with:
+        go-version: "^1.20"
+
+    - name: Run go mod tidy and check for diffs
+      run: |
+        go mod tidy
+        git diff --exit-code
+
+    - name: Run code generation and check for diffs
+      run: |
+        hack/update-codegen.sh validation
+        git diff --exit-code
+
+    - name: Run validation-gen go tests and also check for diffs with generated test fixture code
+      env: 
+        UPDATE_VALIDATION_GEN_FIXTURE_DATA: "true"
+      run: |
+        go test ./staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/validation-gen/...
+        git diff --exit-code
+