Limit Markdown-only CI exclusions to root files

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Limit Markdown-only CI exclusions to repository-root files

Description

CI path filters

• Replace recursive **/*.md exclusions with root-only *.md.
• Keep documentation-only changes out of expensive CI while allowing nested AnalyzerReleases.*.md manifests to trigger validation.

- '*.md'

• Fixes Some CI legs are still running for .md changes #69148

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The changes are small, consistent across the affected pipelines, and align with the stated goal of allowing nested Markdown (e.g., analyzer release manifests) to trigger validation.

Pull request overview

Updates Azure Pipelines PR path filters so that “Markdown-only” exclusions apply only to repository-root *.md files, allowing nested Markdown (notably AnalyzerReleases.*.md) to trigger the usual validation while still skipping expensive CI for root-doc-only PRs.

Changes:

• Replaced PR path exclusions of **/*.md with *.md across several pipelines.
• Updated the “report green” pipeline’s PR path includes to match the same root-only Markdown behavior.
• Kept the rest of the doc/metadata path filtering behavior unchanged.

File summaries

File	Description
.azure/pipelines/template-tests-pr.yml	Limits Markdown exclusion to root *.md for template PR validation path filters.
.azure/pipelines/report-green.yml	Limits Markdown-only “always green” triggering to root *.md.
.azure/pipelines/quarantined-pr.yml	Limits Markdown exclusion to root *.md for quarantined PR validation path filters.
.azure/pipelines/components-e2e-tests.yml	Limits Markdown exclusion to root *.md for Components E2E PR validation path filters.
.azure/pipelines/components-e2e-tests-internal.yml	Limits Markdown exclusion to root *.md for internal Components E2E PR validation path filters.
.azure/pipelines/ci-public.yml	Limits Markdown exclusion to root *.md for main public CI PR validation path filters.

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