diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 604e2ec..06225a0 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ View the documentation_ for hdfs3.
 .. _libhdfs3: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/libhdfs3-downstream/tree/master/libhdfs3
 .. _documentation: https://hdfs3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 
-.. |Build Status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/dask/hdfs3.svg?branch=master
+.. |Build Status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/dask/hdfs3.svg?branch=main
     :target: https://travis-ci.org/dask/hdfs3
diff --git a/hdfs3/_version.py b/hdfs3/_version.py
index b28ed44..69b56aa 100644
--- a/hdfs3/_version.py
+++ b/hdfs3/_version.py
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
         # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
         # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
         # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
-        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "".
         tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
         if verbose:
             print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs - tags))
diff --git a/versioneer.py b/versioneer.py
index 64fea1c..1f10921 100644
--- a/versioneer.py
+++ b/versioneer.py
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
         # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
         # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
         # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
-        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "".
         tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
         if verbose:
             print("discarding '%%s', no digits" %% ",".join(refs - tags))
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
         # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
         # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
         # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
-        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "".
         tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
         if verbose:
             print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs - tags))