Doc updates for repo_node addition to Decider function args

4 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/user/depends.xml b/doc/user/depends.xml
index 297eaa2..c13828f 100644
--- a/doc/user/depends.xml
+++ b/doc/user/depends.xml
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ cc -o hello hello.o
       <scons_example name="depends_function">
         <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
 Program('hello.c')
-def decide_if_changed(dependency, target, prev_ni):
+def decide_if_changed(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node=None):
     if dependency.get_timestamp() != prev_ni.timestamp:
         dep = str(dependency)
         tgt = str(target)
diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index 6a8d626..9729ac4 100755
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Fix Issue #3350 - mslink failing when too many objects.  This is resolved by adding TEMPFILEARGJOIN variable
       which specifies what character to join all the argements output into the tempfile. The default remains a space
       when mslink, msvc, or mslib tools are loaded they change the TEMPFILEARGJOIN to be a line separator (\r\n on win32)
+    - Fix performance degradation for MD5-timestamp decider.  NOTE: This changes the Decider() function arguments.
+      From:
+          def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni):
+      To:
+          def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node):
+      Where repo_node is the repository (or other) node to use to check if the node is out of date instead of dependency.
+
+
 
     From Michael Hartmann:
     - Fix handling of Visual Studio Compilers to properly reject any unknown HOST_PLATFORM or TARGET_PLATFORM
diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt
index efa35eb..2857cbf 100755
--- a/src/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/src/RELEASE.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
 
   CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
 
+      - Fix performance degradation for MD5-timestamp decider.  NOTE: This changes the Decider() function arguments.
+      From:
+          def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni):
+      To:
+          def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node):
+      Where repo_node is the repository (or other) node to use to check if the node is out of date instead of dependency.
+
+
     - Enhanced --debug=explain output. Now the separate components of the dependency list are split up
       as follows:
 
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.xml b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.xml
index 0982c31..1b0a04c 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.xml
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.xml
@@ -1213,6 +1213,17 @@ size, or content signature.
 </para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
+    <varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>repo_node</parameter></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Use this node instead of the one specified by
+<varname>dependency</varname>
+    to determine if the dependency has changed.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
 </variablelist>
 </para>
 
@@ -1249,7 +1260,7 @@ Example:
 </para>
 
 <example_commands>
-def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni):
+def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node=None):
     return not os.path.exists(str(target))
 
 env.Decider(my_decider)