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| environment | | A list of environment variables to set. The should be specified in a `NAME` or `NAME=VALUE` format. If no value is provided, the value of the variable from the host will be provided if it is available. These environment variables will be applied on top of any that were set at the top-level. |
| stages | Yes | A list of `stages` to be run as part of this `plan` in the order that they should be run in. |
-| merge | | Whether or not to attempt to merge a plan defined in the parent config file. |
+| merge | | Whether or not to attempt to merge with a plan defined in the parent config file. | If a plan of the same name exists in a parent config file and merge is not set, it will replace the plan in its entirety. If merge is set, then
the stages defined in this plan will overwrite stages of the parent plan with the same name. This behavior also applies to environments.