making the method more discoverable by having an instance method

core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ import static hudson.FilePath.TarCompression.GZIP;
 import hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarInputStream;
 import hudson.util.io.Archiver;
 import hudson.util.io.ArchiverFactory;
+import jenkins.util.VirtualFile;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
@@ -1041,6 +1042,13 @@ public final class FilePath implements Serializable {
         });
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Gets the {@link VirtualFile} representation of this {@link FilePath}
+     */
+    public VirtualFile toVirtualFile() {
+        return VirtualFile.forFilePath(this);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Creates this directory.
      */