Consolidate path filters in SDK test workflows per GitHub Actions spec

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GitHub Actions does not support using both paths and paths-ignore on the same event. All SDK test workflows were violating this constraint.

Changes

Consolidated path filtering in 4 workflows:

• nodejs-sdk-tests.yml
• dotnet-sdk-tests.yml
• go-sdk-tests.yml
• python-sdk-tests.yml

Replaced paths-ignore with negated patterns in paths using ! prefix:

# Before
on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'nodejs/**'
      - 'test/**'
    paths-ignore:
      - '**/*.md'
      - '**/LICENSE*'

# After
on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'nodejs/**'
      - 'test/**'
      - '!**/*.md'
      - '!**/LICENSE*'

Pattern order follows spec: positive patterns first, then negative patterns. Filtering behavior unchanged.

Original prompt

per the github actions doc:

You cannot use paths and paths-ignore to filter the same event in a single workflow. If you want to both include and exclude path patterns for a single event, use the paths filter prefixed with the ! character to indicate which paths should be excluded.

If you define a path with the ! character, you must also define at least one path without the ! character. If you only want to exclude paths, use paths-ignore instead.

The order that you define paths patterns matters:

A matching negative pattern (prefixed with !) after a positive match will exclude the path.
A matching positive pattern after a negative match will include the path again.
This example runs anytime the push event includes a file in the sub-project directory or its subdirectories, unless the file is in the sub-project/docs directory. For example, a push that changed sub-project/index.js or sub-project/src/index.js will trigger a workflow run, but a push changing only sub-project/docs/readme.md will not.

on:
push:
paths:
- 'sub-project/'
- '!sub-project/docs/'

update the sdk tests workflows

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Pull request overview

Updates GitHub Actions SDK test workflows to comply with the GitHub Actions spec that disallows using paths and paths-ignore together for the same event.

Changes:

• Removed paths-ignore from the SDK test workflows’ pull_request triggers.
• Added equivalent negated patterns (!…) under paths, with positive patterns listed first to preserve filter precedence.
• Applied the same consolidation approach across Node.js, Python, Go, and .NET SDK workflows.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
.github/workflows/nodejs-sdk-tests.yml	Replaces paths-ignore with negated paths patterns for pull_request trigger filtering.
.github/workflows/python-sdk-tests.yml	Replaces paths-ignore with negated paths patterns for pull_request trigger filtering.
.github/workflows/go-sdk-tests.yml	Replaces paths-ignore with negated paths patterns for pull_request trigger filtering.
.github/workflows/dotnet-sdk-tests.yml	Replaces paths-ignore with negated paths patterns for pull_request trigger filtering.

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