diff --git a/t/00-testcritic.t b/t/00-testcritic.t
index debd8b2f18..66458df707 100755
--- a/t/00-testcritic.t
+++ b/t/00-testcritic.t
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ if ( $EVAL_ERROR ) {
 }
 
 Test::Perl::Critic->import( -profile => '.perlcriticrc' );
-my @files = map { chomp; $_ } `git ls-tree -r master --name-only`;    # only files part of git
+my @files = map { chomp; $_ } `git ls-tree -r HEAD --name-only`;    # only files part of git
 all_critic_ok(@files);
diff --git a/xt/check_makefile.t b/xt/check_makefile.t
index 69b0f24891..91235bfa14 100755
--- a/xt/check_makefile.t
+++ b/xt/check_makefile.t
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ use File::Slurp qw( read_file );
 use Data::Dumper;
 
 my $curdir = File::Spec->curdir();
-my @dirs = `git ls-tree -d --name-only master`;
+my @dirs = `git ls-tree -d --name-only HEAD`;
 my $makefile = read_file("$curdir/Makefile.PL");
 my @missing;
 for my $d ( sort @dirs ) {