diff --git a/macro/agnostic/publication.sh b/macro/agnostic/publication.sh
index 6c8cd29f..28087c8f 100755
--- a/macro/agnostic/publication.sh
+++ b/macro/agnostic/publication.sh
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ ppl--publication.tag-git-version() {
            "may be you re-executed an old run?"
   }
   
+  if [ "${snapshotVersionTag:0:1}" = "v" ]; then
+    snapshotVersionTag="${snapshotVersionTag}-merge"
+  fi
+
   __git_add_tag -f "$snapshotVersionTag" "$PPL_RUN_ID" "$PPL_COMMIT_ID"
   __git push origin "$snapshotVersionTag" -f
   
diff --git a/test/agnostic/test_full_pipeline.sh b/test/agnostic/test_full_pipeline.sh
index 460a996f..b0dfd9ab 100755
--- a/test/agnostic/test_full_pipeline.sh
+++ b/test/agnostic/test_full_pipeline.sh
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ test_flow_pr_check() {
     ppl--publication tag-git-version --lcd "local-clone" || _SOE
     
     cd local-clone
-    ASSERT -v SNAPSHOT-TAG "$(git tag | grep "ENG-")" = "v10.9.8.0-ENG-2471-PR-154+BB-develop"
+    ASSERT -v SNAPSHOT-TAG "$(git tag | grep "ENG-")" = "v10.9.8.0-ENG-2471-PR-154+BB-develop-merge"
   ) || _SOE
   
   #~
diff --git a/test/test_misc.sh b/test/test_misc.sh
index 1e31e7b8..d994ec1a 100755
--- a/test/test_misc.sh
+++ b/test/test_misc.sh
@@ -483,6 +483,9 @@ test__ppl_extract_branch_name_from_ref() {
   ASSERT RES = "epic/an-epic-branch"
   _ppl_extract_branch_name_from_ref RES "refs/tags/TEST/v7.0.0-ENG-3002-PR-166"
   ASSERT RES = "TEST/v7.0.0-ENG-3002-PR-166"
+  _ppl_extract_branch_name_from_ref RES "refs/tags/v7.0.0-ENG-3002-PR-166+BB-develop"
+  ASSERT RES = "develop"
+
 }
 
 #TEST:lib