Terminology
Every term, one definition each.
By the OneEnv team · Last updated
- Admin
- Workspace role with access to every service; manages members and reviews branches.
- Approve & merge
- The reviewer's decision on a submitted branch; applies its changes.
- Branch
- A named set of staged edits that is reviewed and merged as one.
- Conflict
- A staged change whose recorded 'before' value no longer matches the item's current value.
- DB Master
- A workspace database definition with tables and columns that services can inherit.
- Diverged
- Status of an API or validation copy whose service rejected an upstream change.
- Env Master
- A shared variable definition: key, description, secret flag, one value.
- Export
- A service's resolved configuration rendered as shell, dotenv, HOCON or a custom template.
- Impact
- One pending decision for one service about one merged change.
- Inheritance
- A service's recorded dependency on a master.
- Member
- Workspace role limited by per-service permissions.
- Merge
- Applying a branch's changes to the masters in one transaction.
- Override
- A service's own value for an inherited variable; wins over the shared value.
- Owner
- Workspace role with full control, including archive and ownership transfer.
- Propose
- A service creating a table or column that stays private until its branch merges.
- Rebase
- Re-reading current values into a draft branch's 'before' snapshots.
- Revert
- Creating a new draft branch that undoes the update-type changes of a merged branch.
- service_admin
- Per-service permission level allowing approval of that service's impacts.
- Staged change
- One recorded edit on a branch; the master is unchanged until merge.
- Template Instance
- The result of importing an Env Template: one master per template field.
- Validation Master
- A reusable validation rule assignable to columns and fields.
- Workspace
- The container for services, masters, branches, members and history.