diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/pr-pull.rb b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/pr-pull.rb
index 28218da84c60d6546607dbb0362b962a5eecc98e..bd31341df913c50a47d596dfa5863cb284e4e62e 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/pr-pull.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/pr-pull.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ module Homebrew
              description: "Automatically reformat and reword commits in the pull request to our "\
                           "preferred format."
       switch "--branch-okay",
-             description: "Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides master (useful for testing)."
+             description: "Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides the repository default (useful for testing)."
       switch "--resolve",
              description: "When a patch fails to apply, leave in progress and allow user to resolve, "\
                           "instead of aborting."
@@ -291,14 +291,6 @@ module Homebrew
     Utils::Git.cherry_pick!(path, "--ff", "--allow-empty", *commits, verbose: args.verbose?, resolve: args.resolve?)
   end
 
-  def check_branch(path, ref, args:)
-    branch = Utils.popen_read("git", "-C", path, "symbolic-ref", "--short", "HEAD").strip
-
-    return if branch == ref || args.clean? || args.branch_okay?
-
-    opoo "Current branch is #{branch}: do you need to pull inside #{ref}?"
-  end
-
   def formulae_need_bottles?(tap, original_commit, args:)
     return if args.dry_run?
 
@@ -383,7 +375,12 @@ module Homebrew
       _, user, repo, pr = *url_match
       odie "Not a GitHub pull request: #{arg}" unless pr
 
-      check_branch tap.path, "master", args: args
+      current_branch = Utils::Git.current_branch(tap.path)
+      origin_branch = Utils::Git.origin_branch(tap.path).split("/").last
+
+      if current_branch != origin_branch || args.branch_okay? || args.clean?
+        opoo "Current branch is #{current_branch}: do you need to pull inside #{origin_branch}?"
+      end
 
       ohai "Fetching #{tap} pull request ##{pr}"
       Dir.mktmpdir pr do |dir|
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/git.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/git.rb
index 168c9ce439d67fb8be1b5249e87d2ca89266ffa2..f6567a0f4b9acf546a43ad4b4b9b957a37d568fc 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/git.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/git.rb
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ module Utils
                        "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD").chomp.presence
     end
 
+    def current_branch(repo)
+      Utils.popen_read("git", "-C", repo, "symbolic-ref", "--short", "HEAD").chomp.presence
+    end
+
     # Special case of `git cherry-pick` that permits non-verbose output and
     # optional resolution on merge conflict.
     def cherry_pick!(repo, *args, resolve: false, verbose: false)
diff --git a/docs/Manpage.md b/docs/Manpage.md
index 886e30c8d1957a3b02cf6bac2e8221865fa94015..22b800a20f8610c7a14516ace000cd89597ed28e 100644
--- a/docs/Manpage.md
+++ b/docs/Manpage.md
@@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ Requires write access to the repository.
 * `--autosquash`:
   Automatically reformat and reword commits in the pull request to our preferred format.
 * `--branch-okay`:
-  Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides master (useful for testing).
+  Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides the repository default (useful for testing).
 * `--resolve`:
   When a patch fails to apply, leave in progress and allow user to resolve, instead of aborting.
 * `--warn-on-upload-failure`:
diff --git a/manpages/brew.1 b/manpages/brew.1
index 98889a0434f3616b95cb9591d95174d5021d8907..d1cc2569c84078d775c24c0e178199fcdbbafa91 100644
--- a/manpages/brew.1
+++ b/manpages/brew.1
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ Automatically reformat and reword commits in the pull request to our preferred f
 .
 .TP
 \fB\-\-branch\-okay\fR
-Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides master (useful for testing)\.
+Do not warn if pulling to a branch besides the repository default (useful for testing)\.
 .
 .TP
 \fB\-\-resolve\fR