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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