DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL:

It appears that the MergeFilesTask has non-deterministic outputs, as it does not sort the files before merging their contents. This affects proguard file merging and baseline profile merging.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

I noticed this while investigating some remote build cache fidelity issues. I see lint analysis tasks on consecutive builds across different machines result in cache misses despite being identical, and build scan comparisons reveal it's because library merged proguard rule contents are the same. I'm trying to confirm that this is due to inconsistent file ordering when merging via monkeypatch in our internal plugin.

Studio Build: N/A
Version of Gradle Plugin: 7.4.0
Version of Gradle: 7.6
Version of Java: 19
OS: macOS Ventura 13.1