diff --git a/commands/publish/__tests__/publish-from-git.test.js b/commands/publish/__tests__/publish-from-git.test.js
index 096d849b9e..5ca8e4a73c 100644
--- a/commands/publish/__tests__/publish-from-git.test.js
+++ b/commands/publish/__tests__/publish-from-git.test.js
@@ -72,6 +72,21 @@ describe("publish from-git", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("publishes packages matching custom --tag-version-prefix", async () => {
+    const cwd = await initFixture("normal");
+
+    await gitTag(cwd, "foo/1.0.0");
+    await lernaPublish(cwd)("from-git", "--tag-version-prefix", "foo/");
+
+    expect(npmPublish.order()).toEqual([
+      "package-1",
+      "package-3",
+      "package-4",
+      "package-2",
+      // package-5 is private
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("only publishes independent packages with matching tags", async () => {
     const cwd = await initFixture("independent");
 
diff --git a/commands/publish/lib/get-current-tags.js b/commands/publish/lib/get-current-tags.js
index 5ad5d31165..7c58d5be1d 100644
--- a/commands/publish/lib/get-current-tags.js
+++ b/commands/publish/lib/get-current-tags.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const childProcess = require("@lerna/child-process");
 module.exports = getCurrentTags;
 
 function getCurrentTags(execOpts, matchingPattern) {
-  log.silly("getCurrentTags");
+  log.silly("getCurrentTags", "matching %j", matchingPattern);
 
   const opts = Object.assign({}, execOpts, {
     // don't reject due to non-zero exit code when there are no results
@@ -16,12 +16,17 @@ function getCurrentTags(execOpts, matchingPattern) {
 
   return childProcess
     .exec("git", ["tag", "--sort", "version:refname", "--points-at", "HEAD", "--list", matchingPattern], opts)
-    .then(listPackageNames);
-}
+    .then(result => {
+      const lines = result.stdout.split("\n").filter(Boolean);
+
+      if (matchingPattern === "*@*") {
+        // independent mode does not respect tagVersionPrefix,
+        // but embeds the package name in the tag "prefix"
+        return lines.map(tag => npa(tag).name);
+      }
 
-function listPackageNames(result) {
-  return result.stdout
-    .split("\n")
-    .map(tag => tag && npa(tag).name)
-    .filter(Boolean);
+      // "fixed" mode can have a custom tagVersionPrefix,
+      // but it doesn't really matter as it is not used to extract package names
+      return lines;
+    });
 }