Glossary

Access request — a request from a user for project or repository access.

Audit trail — controlled history of actions, results and actors.

Checkout / Download — creating a local workspace from a server repository.

Commit / Upload — sending local changes and creating a new revision.

Correlation ID — an identifier linking a user-visible error to API/log/audit events.

Default branch — the main line-of-work name, for example main.

DigiVC Server — the central API, WEB/Admin and repository runtime.

Full checkout — downloading the complete accessible repository.

Lock — protection of a path against concurrent modification.

Manifest — an inventory and checksums used to verify integrity.

Partial checkout — a workspace containing selected folders/files only.

Project — a container for one or more repositories.

Repository — a versioned store inside a project.

Repository address — a permanent address such as digivc://server/Project/Repository.

Revision — an immutable version created by a successful commit.

Vault Storage — the controlled internal object storage for file content.

Validation gate — a mandatory check that can allow or block commit/build.

Workspace — a local directory containing working files and DigiVC metadata.

System administrator — an account with system-wide DigiVC administration rights; it does not necessarily have OS root privileges.