VSCode files.associations

Question

I have some .txt files in a subfolder of my project which contain SQL code. I want SQL syntax highlighting so I added this to my workspace folder settings:

{
    "files.associations": {
        "**/somefolder/*.txt": "sql" 
    }
}

This works when there are the two stars in front of the folder name. But somefolder actually is a folder direct under my project's root.

Why can I not write the glob like somefolder/**/*.txt?

Answer 1

Seems like this new version of VSCode requires you to use the ** at the start regardless:

{
    "files.associations": {
        "**/somefolder/**/*.txt": "sql" 
    }
}

That should work