diff --git a/src/actions-util.test.ts b/src/actions-util.test.ts
index 6caec4f30..fb1a1842d 100644
--- a/src/actions-util.test.ts
+++ b/src/actions-util.test.ts
@@ -324,3 +324,41 @@ test("determineBaseBranchHeadCommitOid other error", async (t) => {
 
   infoStub.restore();
 });
+
+test("decodeGitFilePath unquoted strings", async (t) => {
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo"), "foo");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo bar"), "foo bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\\\bar"), "foo\\\\bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('foo\\"bar'), 'foo\\"bar');
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\001bar"), "foo\\001bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\abar"), "foo\\abar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\bbar"), "foo\\bbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\fbar"), "foo\\fbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\nbar"), "foo\\nbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\rbar"), "foo\\rbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\tbar"), "foo\\tbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("foo\\vbar"), "foo\\vbar");
+  t.deepEqual(
+    actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath("\\a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t\\v"),
+    "\\a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t\\v",
+  );
+});
+
+test("decodeGitFilePath quoted strings", async (t) => {
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo"'), "foo");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo bar"'), "foo bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\\\bar"'), "foo\\bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\"bar"'), 'foo"bar');
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\001bar"'), "foo\x01bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\abar"'), "foo\x07bar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\bbar"'), "foo\bbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\fbar"'), "foo\fbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\nbar"'), "foo\nbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\rbar"'), "foo\rbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\tbar"'), "foo\tbar");
+  t.deepEqual(actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"foo\\vbar"'), "foo\vbar");
+  t.deepEqual(
+    actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath('"\\a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t\\v"'),
+    "\x07\b\f\n\r\t\v",
+  );
+});
diff --git a/src/actions-util.ts b/src/actions-util.ts
index 8d4453428..8f39e331b 100644
--- a/src/actions-util.ts
+++ b/src/actions-util.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,54 @@ export const determineBaseBranchHeadCommitOid = async function (
   }
 };
 
+/**
+ * Decode, if necessary, a file path produced by Git. See
+ * https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-corequotePath
+ * for details on how Git encodes file paths with special characters.
+ *
+ * This function works only for Git output with `core.quotePath=false`.
+ */
+export const decodeGitFilePath = function (filePath: string): string {
+  if (filePath.startsWith('"') && filePath.endsWith('"')) {
+    filePath = filePath.substring(1, filePath.length - 1);
+    return filePath.replace(
+      /\\([abfnrtv\\"]|[0-7]{1,3})/g,
+      (_match, seq: string) => {
+        switch (seq[0]) {
+          case "a":
+            return "\x07";
+          case "b":
+            return "\b";
+          case "f":
+            return "\f";
+          case "n":
+            return "\n";
+          case "r":
+            return "\r";
+          case "t":
+            return "\t";
+          case "v":
+            return "\v";
+          case "\\":
+            return "\\";
+          case '"':
+            return '"';
+          default:
+            // Both String.fromCharCode() and String.fromCodePoint() works only
+            // for constructing an entire character at once. If a Unicode
+            // character is encoded as a sequence of escaped bytes, calling these
+            // methods sequentially on the individual byte values would *not*
+            // produce the original multi-byte Unicode character. As a result,
+            // this implementation works only with the Git option core.quotePath
+            // set to false.
+            return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(seq, 8));
+        }
+      },
+    );
+  }
+  return filePath;
+};
+
 /**
  * Get the ref currently being analyzed.
  */