diff --git a/bin/git-forgit b/bin/git-forgit
index cd7b2dab..659b5123 100755
--- a/bin/git-forgit
+++ b/bin/git-forgit
@@ -224,8 +224,7 @@ _forgit_worktree_changes() {
     untracked=$(git config --get-color color.status.untracked red)
     show_untracked=$(git config status.showUntrackedFiles)
 
-    git -c color.status=always -c status.relativePaths=true status --porcelain -zs --untracked="${show_untracked:-all}" |
-        tr '\0' '\n' |
+    git -c color.status=always -c status.relativePaths=true -c core.quotePath=false status -s --untracked="${show_untracked:-all}" |
         grep -F -e "$changed" -e "$unmerged" -e "$untracked" |
         sed -E 's/^(..[^[:space:]]*)[[:space:]]+(.*)$/[\1]  \2/'
 }
diff --git a/tests/working-tree-changes.test.sh b/tests/working-tree-changes.test.sh
index 03aa29c5..47448445 100644
--- a/tests/working-tree-changes.test.sh
+++ b/tests/working-tree-changes.test.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
     git add "staged file.txt"
 
     touch "untracked_file.txt"
-    touch 'untracked_with_\backslash'
  }
 
  function test_forgit_worktree_changes_contains_modified() {
@@ -57,11 +56,3 @@
 
      assert_not_contains "tracked file.txt" "$output"
  }
-
- function test_forgit_worktree_changes_supports_backslashes() {
-     local output
-
-     output=$(_forgit_worktree_changes)
-
-     assert_contains 'untracked_with_\backslash' "$output"
- }