Rollback of commit a0eefb52f529b73c6cb92f0a762853646ea2eae6.

*** Reason for rollback ***

Rolling forward with the restored logic to avoid stat calls on injected Metadata.

*** Original change description ***

Automated [] rollback of commit df03e10f6552566982399b8779fe7bc7a17d75dc.

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MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=114447944
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/actions/ActionInputHelper.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/actions/ActionInputHelper.java
index 8bceb9a..4471c4c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/actions/ActionInputHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/actions/ActionInputHelper.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Functions;
 import com.google.common.collect.Collections2;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
 import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
 import com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.Artifact.ArtifactExpander;
 import com.google.devtools.build.lib.util.Preconditions;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 /**
  * Helper utility to create ActionInput instances.
@@ -158,7 +160,7 @@
         });
   }
 
-  /** Returns an Collection of ArtifactFiles with the given parent and parent relative paths. */
+  /** Returns an Collection of ArtifactFiles with the given parent and parent-relative paths. */
   public static Collection<ArtifactFile> asArtifactFiles(
       final Artifact parent, Collection<? extends PathFragment> parentRelativePaths) {
     Preconditions.checkState(parent.isTreeArtifact(),
@@ -172,6 +174,20 @@
         });
   }
 
+  /** Returns a Set of ArtifactFiles with the given parent and parent relative paths. */
+  public static Set<ArtifactFile> asArtifactFiles(
+      final Artifact parent, Set<? extends PathFragment> parentRelativePaths) {
+    Preconditions.checkState(parent.isTreeArtifact(),
+        "Given parent %s must be a TreeArtifact", parent);
+
+    ImmutableSet.Builder<ArtifactFile> builder = ImmutableSet.builder();
+    for (PathFragment path : parentRelativePaths) {
+      builder.add(artifactFile(parent, path));
+    }
+
+    return builder.build();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Expands middleman artifacts in a sequence of {@link ActionInput}s.
    *