PR Summary

This pull request includes changes to streamline and centralize the configuration for path filtering in GitHub Actions workflows. The most important changes involve the creation of a shared filter configuration file and the modification of multiple CI workflow files to use this shared configuration.

Centralization of path filters:

• .github/action-filters.yml: Created a new file to define shared path filters for different components likegithub,tools,props,tests,mainSource, andbuildModule.

Updates to CI workflows:

• .github/workflows/linux-ci.yml: Updated to use the shared path filters from.github/action-filters.yml and added a step to capture outputs.
• .github/workflows/macos-ci.yml: Updated to use the shared path filters from.github/action-filters.yml and added a step to capture outputs.
• .github/workflows/windows-ci.yml: Updated to use the shared path filters from.github/action-filters.yml and added a step to capture outputs.

PR Context

The actions were overmatching after moving todorny/paths-filters because it does a logical or of all filters including thenot (!) statements.

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