What is this project ?

This project is NOT the official opencv repository.

It is a fork of opencv sources hosted at https://github.com/opencv/opencv.

It is used as staging area to maintain and test patches that may be contributed back to the official repository.

What is the branch naming convention ?

Each branch is named following the pattern slicer-X.Y.Z-YYYY.MM.DD-SHA{N}

where:

X.Y.Z is the version of the forked project
YYYY.MM.DD is the date of the last official commit associated with the branch.
SHA{N} are the first N characters of the last official commit associated with the branch.

git clone git://github.com/slicer/opencv
cd opencv
git remote add upstream git@github.com:opencv/opencv
git fetch upstream

Create a new branch following the convention slicer-X.Y.Z-YYYY.MM.DD-SHA{N}
Cherry-pick the Slicer specific commits from last branch. Resolve conflict as needed.
Test the changes
Publish the branch. (directly in this repo if you have push rights, or on a fork)