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Brain Dump

/brān dəmp/

n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. 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."

See core dump (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as 'TOI' (transfer of information).