brain dump

(The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a

particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let

a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous

to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of

useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a

brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at

HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of

information).

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