How to stop VS Code to keep adding standard c++ libraries to the file.associations?

Question

Each time I go commit the changes in my VS Code project, VS Code has automatically added many standard c++ libraries to the files.associations list inside of workspace.code-workspace.

example changes shown by git

I think I can't simply add the whole file to.gitignore. Is there a way to prevent the file.associations to change every time without losing any functionality?

Answer 1

That's not kind of problem, it's just your choice to ignore it in git or not. If you want to share your .vscode to git -- you keep it. Or you can add .vscode to .gitignore and it won't be committed and also you can just ignore only your

Answer 2

I've added something like this and it helped me:

"files.associations": {
    "*.h": "c",
    "*.c": "c"
}

Answer 3

According to this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/722 :

You can add to your workspace.code-workspace file the setting: "C_Cpp.autoAddFileAssociations": false inside "settings" .

You can also add this as a user setting only if you'll search for autoAddFileAssociations in the settings GUI.

It does mean that VSCode won't treat those files as C++ but as plain text. A proper fix still seems to be in progress in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/4077 .