Edit UI text for Default Branch settings

app/views/projects/default_branch/_show.html.haml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     %button.btn.js-settings-toggle
       = expanded ? _('Collapse') : _('Expand')
     %p
-      = _('Select the branch you want to set as the default for this project. All merge requests and commits will automatically be made against this branch unless you specify a different one.')
+      = _('Set the default branch for this project. All merge requests and commits are made against this branch unless you specify a different one.')
 
   .settings-content
     = form_for @project, remote: true, html: { multipart: true, anchor: 'default-branch-settings' }, authenticity_token: true do |f|
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
             = f.label :autoclose_referenced_issues, class: 'form-check-label' do
               %strong= _("Auto-close referenced issues on default branch")
             .form-text.text-muted
-              = _("Issues referenced by merge requests and commits within the default branch will be closed automatically")
+              = _("When merge requests and commits in the default branch close, any issues they reference also close.")
               = link_to sprite_icon('question-o'), help_page_path('user/project/issues/managing_issues.md', anchor: 'disabling-automatic-issue-closing'), target: '_blank'
 
       = f.submit _('Save changes'), class: "gl-button btn btn-success"

changelogs/unreleased/ui-text-default-branch.yml

+---
+title: Updated UI text to match style guidelines
+merge_request: 51658
+author:
+type: other

locale/gitlab.pot

@@ -15881,9 +15881,6 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Issues closed"
 msgstr ""
 
-msgid "Issues referenced by merge requests and commits within the default branch will be closed automatically"
-msgstr ""
-
 msgid "Issues with comments, merge requests with diffs and comments, labels, milestones, snippets, and other project entities"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -25452,9 +25449,6 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Select target branch"
 msgstr ""
 
-msgid "Select the branch you want to set as the default for this project. All merge requests and commits will automatically be made against this branch unless you specify a different one."
-msgstr ""
-
 msgid "Select the custom project template source group."
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -25737,6 +25731,9 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Set target branch to %{branch_name}."
 msgstr ""
 
+msgid "Set the default branch for this project. All merge requests and commits are made against this branch unless you specify a different one."
+msgstr ""
+
 msgid "Set the default expiration time for each job's artifacts. 0 for unlimited. The default unit is in seconds, but you can define an alternative. For example: %{code_open}4 mins 2 sec%{code_close}, %{code_open}2h42min%{code_close}."
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -31836,6 +31833,9 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "When leaving the URL blank, classification labels can still be specified without disabling cross project features or performing external authorization checks."
 msgstr ""
 
+msgid "When merge requests and commits in the default branch close, any issues they reference also close."
+msgstr ""
+
 msgid "When this merge request is accepted"
 msgid_plural "When these merge requests are accepted"
 msgstr[0] ""