diff --git a/fs/repository.go b/fs/repository.go
index 0bfe05e..5370473 100644
--- a/fs/repository.go
+++ b/fs/repository.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func newRepositoryNode(project *gitlab.Project, param *FSParam) (*RepositoryNode
 
 func (n *RepositoryNode) Readlink(ctx context.Context) ([]byte, syscall.Errno) {
 	// Create the local copy of the repo
-	localRepoLoc, _ := n.param.Git.CloneOrPull(n.project.CloneURL, n.project.ID, "master")
+	localRepoLoc, _ := n.param.Git.CloneOrPull(n.project.CloneURL, n.project.ID, n.project.DefaultBranch)
 
 	return []byte(localRepoLoc), 0
 }
diff --git a/gitlab/project.go b/gitlab/project.go
index 7432bab..6f789f5 100644
--- a/gitlab/project.go
+++ b/gitlab/project.go
@@ -5,16 +5,21 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Project struct {
-	ID       int
-	Name     string
-	CloneURL string
+	ID            int
+	Name          string
+	CloneURL      string
+	DefaultBranch string
 }
 
 func (c *gitlabClient) newProjectFromGitlabProject(project *gitlab.Project) Project {
 	// https://godoc.org/github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab#Project
 	p := Project{
-		ID:   project.ID,
-		Name: project.Path,
+		ID:            project.ID,
+		Name:          project.Path,
+		DefaultBranch: project.DefaultBranch,
+	}
+	if p.DefaultBranch == "" {
+		p.DefaultBranch = "master"
 	}
 	if c.PullMethod == PullMethodSSH {
 		p.CloneURL = project.SSHURLToRepo