diff --git a/git/tag.go b/git/tag.go
index dbd6e7c..20227c4 100644
--- a/git/tag.go
+++ b/git/tag.go
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ func (g Git) PushTag(t tag.Tag) (err error) {
 
 func runGitDescribe() (string, error) {
 	// The following glob(7) pattern is not perfect. It will match things like v1.4badstring.8
-	// But it narrows down the results by a good bit
-	cmd := exec.Command("git", "describe", "--abbrev=0", "--tags", "--match=v[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*")
+	// But it narrows down the results by a good bit. It will exclude prerelease tags such as `v1.4.8-rc-1`
+	cmd := exec.Command("git", "describe", "--abbrev=0", "--tags", "--match=v[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*", "--exclude=v[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*-*")
 	// TODO: if we find a tag, but it's invalid (human created), we should retry and find the one previous.
 	// Probably with a `git describe <bad tag that was found>`
 	return runCommand(cmd)