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Fix bug with normalizing virtual:/ path scheme #1607

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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions src/util.ts
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Expand Up @@ -1822,6 +1822,14 @@ export class Util {
return thePath;
}

//handle `virtual:/` paths specially - just normalize slashes, don't use path.normalize which would mangle the `virtual:` prefix
if (/^virtual:[\/\\]/i.test(thePath)) {
// Strip the `virtual:` prefix, normalize slashes, then re-add the prefix
thePath = 'virtual:/' + thePath.slice(8).replace(/^[\/\\]+/, '').replace(/[\/\\]+/g, '/').toLowerCase();
this.standardizePathCache.set(originalPath, thePath);
return thePath;
}

//windows path.normalize will convert all slashes to backslashes and remove duplicates
if (this.isWindows) {
thePath = path.win32.normalize(thePath);
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