diff --git a/cmd/srpmproc/main.go b/cmd/srpmproc/main.go
index 5223002..f5ebfd4 100644
--- a/cmd/srpmproc/main.go
+++ b/cmd/srpmproc/main.go
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ var (
 	manualCommits        string
 	upstreamPrefixHttps  string
 	moduleFallbackStream string
+	allowStreamBranches  bool
 )
 
 var root = &cobra.Command{
@@ -168,6 +169,7 @@ func mn(_ *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
 		ManualCommits:        manualCs,
 		UpstreamPrefixHttps:  upstreamPrefixHttps,
 		ModuleFallbackStream: moduleFallbackStream,
+		AllowStreamBranches:  allowStreamBranches,
 		FsCreator:            fsCreator,
 	})
 }
@@ -199,6 +201,7 @@ func main() {
 	root.Flags().StringVar(&manualCommits, "manual-commits", "", "Comma separated branch and commit list for packages with broken release tags (Format: BRANCH:HASH)")
 	root.Flags().StringVar(&upstreamPrefixHttps, "upstream-prefix-https", "", "Web version of upstream prefix. Required if module-mode")
 	root.Flags().StringVar(&moduleFallbackStream, "module-fallback-stream", "", "Override fallback stream. Some module packages are published as collections and mostly use the same stream name, some of them deviate from the main stream")
+	root.Flags().BoolVar(&allowStreamBranches, "allow-stream-branches", false, "Allow import from stream branches")
 
 	if err := root.Execute(); err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
diff --git a/internal/data/process.go b/internal/data/process.go
index 5a9ef15..cd8a540 100644
--- a/internal/data/process.go
+++ b/internal/data/process.go
@@ -50,5 +50,6 @@ type ProcessData struct {
 	ManualCommits        []string
 	UpstreamPrefixHttps  string
 	ModuleFallbackStream string
+	AllowStreamBranches  bool
 	FsCreator            func(branch string) billy.Filesystem
 }
diff --git a/internal/process.go b/internal/process.go
index 20a4288..d514774 100644
--- a/internal/process.go
+++ b/internal/process.go
@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ func gitlabify(str string) string {
 // all files that are remote goes into .gitignore
 // all ignored files' hash goes into .{Name}.metadata
 func ProcessRPM(pd *data.ProcessData) {
-	tagImportRegex = regexp.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf("refs/tags/(imports/(%s.|%s.-.+)/(.*))", pd.ImportBranchPrefix, pd.ImportBranchPrefix))
+	if pd.AllowStreamBranches {
+		tagImportRegex = regexp.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf("refs/tags/(imports/(%s(?:.s|.)|%s(?:|s).-.+)/(.*))", pd.ImportBranchPrefix, pd.ImportBranchPrefix))
+	} else {
+		tagImportRegex = regexp.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf("refs/tags/(imports/(%s.|%s.-.+)/(.*))", pd.ImportBranchPrefix, pd.ImportBranchPrefix))
+	}
+
 	md := pd.Importer.RetrieveSource(pd)
 	md.BlobCache = map[string][]byte{}