diff --git a/bamboo-specs/src/main/resources/scripts/git-tag.sh b/bamboo-specs/src/main/resources/scripts/git-tag.sh
index 6c49c00..b250da1 100755
--- a/bamboo-specs/src/main/resources/scripts/git-tag.sh
+++ b/bamboo-specs/src/main/resources/scripts/git-tag.sh
@@ -12,32 +12,33 @@ echo "bamboo plan repo 1 branch:    $bamboo_planRepository_1_branch"
 echo "bamboo build number:          $bamboo_buildNumber"
 
 # update version in poetry to latest version in git if it is lower
+# semver regex pattern: (\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)([a-zA-Z\d]*)?-?(dev\d*|post\d*)?
 check_poetry_version () {
     projectVersion=$(poetry version -s)
     tagCount=$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1 | wc -l)
 
     if [[ $tagCount -gt 0 ]]
     then
-        gitVersion=$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1 | git describe --tags)
+        gitVersion=$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1 | git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
         echo "latest version tag in git:    ${gitVersion}"
         echo "current version in project:   ${projectVersion}"
 
-        if [[ $projectVersion < $gitVersion ]]
-        then
-            echo "project version is behind"
-            echo "setting latest git tag as current version"
-            poetry version "$gitVersion"
-            updateVersion=0  # 0 means all is good means true, yes it's weird
-        elif [[ $projectVersion == $gitVersion ]]
-        then
-            echo "project version matches"
-            echo "keeping the project version"
-            updateVersion=0
-        else
-            echo "project version is higher (aka. has been manually set in pyproject.toml)"
-            echo "keeping the project version"
-            updateVersion=1
-        fi
+            if [[ $projectVersion < $gitVersion ]]
+            then
+                echo "project version is behind"
+                echo "setting latest git tag as current version"
+                poetry version "$gitVersion"
+                updateVersion=0  # 0 means all is good means true, yes it's weird
+            elif [[ $projectVersion == $gitVersion ]]
+            then
+                echo "project version matches"
+                echo "keeping the project version"
+                updateVersion=0
+            else
+                echo "project version is higher (aka. has been manually set in pyproject.toml)"
+                echo "keeping the project version"
+                updateVersion=1
+            fi
     else
         updateVersion=1
     fi