diff --git a/tensorflow/python/summary/event_accumulator.py b/tensorflow/python/summary/event_accumulator.py
index 3715ca64cb1..c605b1b0078 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/summary/event_accumulator.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/summary/event_accumulator.py
@@ -524,8 +524,10 @@ def _GeneratorFromPath(path):
   """Create an event generator for file or directory at given path string."""
   loader_factory = event_file_loader.EventFileLoader
   if gfile.IsDirectory(path):
-    return directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(path, loader_factory,
-                                              IsTensorFlowEventsFile)
+    provider = directory_watcher.SequentialGFileProvider(
+        path,
+        path_filter=IsTensorFlowEventsFile)
+    return directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(provider, loader_factory)
   else:
     return loader_factory(path)
 
diff --git a/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher.py b/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher.py
index 587c7a6d30c..d3ece1f01d4 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher.py
@@ -25,52 +25,56 @@ from tensorflow.python.platform import logging
 
 
 class DirectoryWatcher(object):
-  """A DirectoryWatcher wraps a loader to load from a directory.
+  """A DirectoryWatcher wraps a loader to load from a sequence of paths.
 
-  A loader reads a file on disk and produces some kind of values as an
-  iterator. A DirectoryWatcher takes a directory with one file at a time being
-  written to and a factory for loaders and watches all the files at once.
+  A loader reads a path and produces some kind of values as an iterator. A
+  DirectoryWatcher takes a directory, a path provider (see below) to call to
+  find new paths to load from, and a factory for loaders and watches all the
+  paths inside that directory.
+
+  A path provider is a function that, given either a path or None, returns the
+  next path to load from (or None if there is no such path). This class is only
+  valid under the assumption that only one path will be written to by the data
+  source at a time, and that the path_provider will return the oldest data
+  source that contains fresh data.
 
-  This class is *only* valid under the assumption that files are never removed
-  and the only file ever changed is whichever one is lexicographically last.
   """
 
-  def __init__(self, directory, loader_factory, path_filter=lambda x: True):
+  def __init__(self, path_provider, loader_factory):
     """Constructs a new DirectoryWatcher.
 
     Args:
-      directory: The directory to watch. The directory doesn't have to exist.
+      path_provider: The callback to invoke when trying to find a new path to
+        load from. See the class documentation for the semantics of a path
+        provider.
       loader_factory: A factory for creating loaders. The factory should take a
-        file path and return an object that has a Load method returning an
+        path and return an object that has a Load method returning an
         iterator that will yield all events that have not been yielded yet.
-      path_filter: Only files whose full path matches this predicate will be
-        loaded. If not specified, all files are loaded.
 
     Raises:
-      ValueError: If directory or loader_factory is None.
+      ValueError: If path_provider or loader_factory are None.
     """
-    if directory is None:
-      raise ValueError('A directory is required')
+    if path_provider is None:
+      raise ValueError('A path provider is required')
     if loader_factory is None:
       raise ValueError('A loader factory is required')
-    self._directory = directory
+    self._path_provider = path_provider
+    self._path = None
     self._loader_factory = loader_factory
     self._loader = None
-    self._path = ''
-    self._path_filter = path_filter
 
   def Load(self):
-    """Loads new values from disk.
+    """Loads new values.
 
-    The watcher will load from one file at a time; as soon as that file stops
-    yielding events, it will move on to the next file. We assume that old files
-    are never modified after a newer file has been written. As a result, Load()
+    The watcher will load from one path at a time; as soon as that path stops
+    yielding events, it will move on to the next path. We assume that old paths
+    are never modified after a newer path has been written. As a result, Load()
     can be called multiple times in a row without losing events that have not
     been yielded yet. In other words, we guarantee that every event will be
     yielded exactly once.
 
     Yields:
-      All values that were written to disk that have not been yielded yet.
+      All values that have not been yielded yet.
     """
 
     # If the loader exists, check it for a value.
@@ -78,39 +82,39 @@ class DirectoryWatcher(object):
       self._InitializeLoader()
 
     while True:
-      # Yield all the new events in the file we're currently loading from.
+      # Yield all the new events in the path we're currently loading from.
       for event in self._loader.Load():
         yield event
 
       next_path = self._GetNextPath()
       if not next_path:
-        logging.info('No more files in %s', self._directory)
-        # Current file is empty and there are no new files, so we're done.
+        logging.info('No path found after %s', self._path)
+        # Current path is empty and there are no new paths, so we're done.
         return
 
-      # There's a new file, so check to make sure there weren't any events
-      # written between when we finished reading the current file and when we
+      # There's a new path, so check to make sure there weren't any events
+      # written between when we finished reading the current path and when we
       # checked for the new one. The sequence of events might look something
       # like this:
       #
-      # 1. Event #1 written to file #1.
-      # 2. We check for events and yield event #1 from file #1
-      # 3. We check for events and see that there are no more events in file #1.
-      # 4. Event #2 is written to file #1.
-      # 5. Event #3 is written to file #2.
-      # 6. We check for a new file and see that file #2 exists.
+      # 1. Event #1 written to path #1.
+      # 2. We check for events and yield event #1 from path #1
+      # 3. We check for events and see that there are no more events in path #1.
+      # 4. Event #2 is written to path #1.
+      # 5. Event #3 is written to path #2.
+      # 6. We check for a new path and see that path #2 exists.
       #
       # Without this loop, we would miss event #2. We're also guaranteed by the
-      # loader contract that no more events will be written to file #1 after
-      # events start being written to file #2, so we don't have to worry about
+      # loader contract that no more events will be written to path #1 after
+      # events start being written to path #2, so we don't have to worry about
       # that.
       for event in self._loader.Load():
         yield event
 
-      logging.info('Directory watcher for %s advancing to file %s',
-                   self._directory, next_path)
+      logging.info('Directory watcher advancing from %s to %s', self._path,
+                   next_path)
 
-      # Advance to the next file and start over.
+      # Advance to the next path and start over.
       self._SetPath(next_path)
 
   def _InitializeLoader(self):
@@ -125,10 +129,49 @@ class DirectoryWatcher(object):
     self._loader = self._loader_factory(path)
 
   def _GetNextPath(self):
-    """Returns the path of the next file to use or None if no file exists."""
-    sorted_paths = [os.path.join(self._directory, path)
-                    for path in sorted(gfile.ListDirectory(self._directory))]
-    # We filter here so the filter gets the full directory name.
-    filtered_paths = (path for path in sorted_paths
-                      if self._path_filter(path) and path > self._path)
-    return next(filtered_paths, None)
+    """Returns the next path to use or None if no such path exists."""
+    return self._path_provider(self._path)
+
+
+def _SequentialProvider(path_source):
+  """A provider that iterates over the output of a function that produces paths.
+
+  _SequentialProvider takes in a path_source, which is a function that returns a
+  list of all currently available paths. _SequentialProvider returns in a path
+  provider (see documentation for the |DirectoryWatcher| class for the
+  semantics) that will return the alphabetically next path after the current one
+  (or the earliest path if the current path is None).
+
+  The provider will never return a path which is alphanumerically less than the
+  current path; as such, if the path source provides a high path (e.g. "c") and
+  later doubles back and provides a low path (e.g. "b"), once the current path
+  was set to "c" the _SequentialProvider will ignore the "b" and never return
+  it.
+
+  Args:
+    path_source: A function that returns an iterable of paths.
+
+  Returns:
+    A path provider for use with DirectoryWatcher.
+
+  """
+  def _Provider(current_path):
+    next_paths = list(path
+                      for path in path_source()
+                      if current_path is None or path > current_path)
+    if next_paths:
+      return min(next_paths)
+    else:
+      return None
+
+  return _Provider
+
+
+def SequentialGFileProvider(directory, path_filter=lambda x: True):
+  """Provides the files in a directory that match the given filter."""
+  def _Source():
+    paths = (os.path.join(directory, path)
+             for path in gfile.ListDirectory(directory))
+    return (path for path in paths if path_filter(path))
+
+  return _SequentialProvider(_Source)
diff --git a/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher_test.py b/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher_test.py
index f020c4fd036..784d585dfad 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher_test.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/summary/impl/directory_watcher_test.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class DirectoryWatcherTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
     self._directory = os.path.join(self.get_temp_dir(), 'monitor_dir')
     os.mkdir(self._directory)
     self._watcher = directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(
-        self._directory, _ByteLoader)
+        directory_watcher.SequentialGFileProvider(self._directory), _ByteLoader)
 
   def tearDown(self):
     shutil.rmtree(self._directory)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class DirectoryWatcherTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
     with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
       directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(None, lambda x: [])
     with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
-      directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher('asdf', None)
+      directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(lambda x: None, None)
 
   def testEmptyDirectory(self):
     self.assertWatcherYields([])
@@ -110,15 +110,17 @@ class DirectoryWatcherTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
     self._WriteToFile('c', 'c')
     self.assertWatcherYields(['a', 'c'])
 
-  def testFileFilter(self):
-    self._watcher = directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(
-        self._directory, _ByteLoader,
+  def testPathFilter(self):
+    provider = directory_watcher.SequentialGFileProvider(
+        self._directory,
         path_filter=lambda path: 'do_not_watch_me' not in path)
+    self._watcher = directory_watcher.DirectoryWatcher(provider, _ByteLoader)
 
     self._WriteToFile('a', 'a')
     self._WriteToFile('do_not_watch_me', 'b')
     self._WriteToFile('c', 'c')
     self.assertWatcherYields(['a', 'c'])
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   googletest.main()
diff --git a/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl b/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl
index 4c1af94b0da..22bc61ec689 100644
--- a/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl
+++ b/tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ load("//tensorflow/core:platform/default/build_config_root.bzl",
 # List of proto files for android builds
 def tf_android_core_proto_sources():
     return [
-        "//google/protobuf",  # any.proto
+        "//google/protobuf:any.proto",
         "//tensorflow/core:example/example.proto",
         "//tensorflow/core:example/feature.proto",
         "//tensorflow/core:framework/allocation_description.proto",