branches and paths are not inclusive

[georeith]

Describe the bug

The documentation states:

If you define both branches/branches-ignore and paths/paths-ignore, the workflow will only run when both filters are satisfied.

However this is not the case in our repository, if you specify branches: ** and include paths then the action runs on any commit to any branch.

To Reproduce
I tried to make a simple reproduction but I couldn't reproduce the issue there: georeith/action-filter-bug-repro#1. Which leads me to believe it's something to do with the overall size of our repo, it's a very large repository. Unfortunately it's a private repository but I will show screenshots that show it's misbehaving:

The contents of the action are:

name: Sync Translations Push

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - '**'
    paths:
      - 'locale/en.json'
      - '.github/workflows/syncTranslations.yml'
      - '.github/workflows/syncTranslationsPush.yml'
      - 'crowdin.yml'

jobs:
  syncTranslations:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/syncTranslations.yml
    name: Sync Translations
    secrets:
      CROWDIN_PROJECT_ID: ${{ secrets.CROWDIN_PROJECT_ID }}
      CROWDIN_PERSONAL_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CROWDIN_PERSONAL_TOKEN }}

Expected behavior

The action should only run when both filters are satisfied.

Runner Version and Platform

Version of your runner?

Ubuntu

What's not working?

See above