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After seeing this meta question I thought I would research the difficulty of submitting a pull request to replace mixin with ring size everywhere it is found in Monero source code.

Although I believe I am capable of doing this manually, there are so many uses of the term in multiple repositories that it might take me a long time.

Are there any GitHub tools that can help me find and replace every instance of mixin with ring size automatically so that I don't have to spend hours on the task?

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In addition to the comments from user36303 and JollyMort see this answer to my recent question about the difference between ring size and mixin. The distinction is clarified below:

Ring size = 'mixin' (number of foreign outputs) + 1 (your output)

I agree with the advice above that this task is not urgent and should be left to someone very familiar with the codebase. No find/replace script or other automated tool is appropriate here.

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