Create managing-auto-closing-issues.md (#55400)

Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: mchammer01 <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

content/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/index.md

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   - /about-email-notifications-for-pushes-to-your-repository
   - /configuring-autolinks-to-reference-external-resources
   - /configuring-tag-protection-rules
+  - /managing-auto-closing-issues
 shortTitle: Manage repository settings
 ---
-

content/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/managing-auto-closing-issues.md

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+---
+title: Managing the automatic closing of issues in your repository
+intro: You can select whether merged linked pull requests will auto-close your issues.
+versions:
+  fpt: '*'
+  ghes: '*'
+  ghec: '*'
+permissions: Repository administrators and maintainers can configure the automating closing of issues in the repository, once related pull requests are merged.
+topics:
+  - Repositories
+  - Issues
+  - Pull requests
+shortTitle: Manage auto-closing issues
+allowTitleToDifferFromFilename: true
+---
+
+## About auto-closing issues
+
+By default, merging a linked pull request automatically closes the associated issue. You can override the default behavior by disabling auto-closing.
+
+## Enabling or disabling auto-closing of issues
+
+{% data reusables.repositories.navigate-to-repo %}
+{% data reusables.repositories.sidebar-settings %}
+1. Under **General**, scroll down to the **Issues** section.
+1. Select or deselect **Auto-close issues with merged linked pull requests** to enable or disable auto-closing.