diff --git a/pkg/ssh/cmd/tree.go b/pkg/ssh/cmd/tree.go
index 6399c3e3f8d021a81de54c734690b6282361053b..aec94e9165d6375058fa800a9474c6576579baf2 100644
--- a/pkg/ssh/cmd/tree.go
+++ b/pkg/ssh/cmd/tree.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/git"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/pkg/backend"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/pkg/proto"
+	"github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/pkg/ui/common"
 	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ func treeCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				} else {
 					ssize = humanize.Bytes(uint64(size))
 				}
-				cmd.Printf("%s\t%s\t %s\n", ent.Mode(), ssize, ent.Name())
+				cmd.Printf("%s\t%s\t %s\n", ent.Mode(), ssize, common.UnquoteFilename(ent.Name()))
 			}
 			return nil
 		},
diff --git a/pkg/ui/common/format.go b/pkg/ui/common/format.go
index 8402737969c26740131a7c26f9fd762be4df76d9..4344e057d8cfba2478b977a34f01a1d28c1cc6d2 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/common/format.go
+++ b/pkg/ui/common/format.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package common
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2/lexers"
@@ -54,3 +55,17 @@ func FormatHighlight(p, c string) (string, error) {
 	}
 	return r.String(), nil
 }
+
+// UnquoteFilename unquotes a filename.
+// When Git is with "core.quotePath" set to "true" (default), it will quote
+// the filename with double quotes if it contains control characters or unicode.
+// this function will unquote the filename.
+func UnquoteFilename(s string) string {
+	name := s
+	if n, err := strconv.Unquote(`"` + s + `"`); err == nil {
+		name = n
+	}
+
+	name = strconv.Quote(name)
+	return strings.Trim(name, `"`)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/ui/pages/repo/filesitem.go b/pkg/ui/pages/repo/filesitem.go
index fde57de8c380a22932cf3992d6cc3b2cfd1f0e11..eb59313dba0b3356fe345dfa33b474a4a673474a 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/pages/repo/filesitem.go
+++ b/pkg/ui/pages/repo/filesitem.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/key"
@@ -23,16 +22,12 @@ type FileItem struct {
 
 // ID returns the ID of the file item.
 func (i FileItem) ID() string {
-	name := i.entry.Name()
-	if n, err := strconv.Unquote(name); err == nil {
-		name = n
-	}
-	return name
+	return i.entry.Name()
 }
 
 // Title returns the title of the file item.
 func (i FileItem) Title() string {
-	return i.entry.Name()
+	return common.UnquoteFilename(i.entry.Name())
 }
 
 // Description returns the description of the file item.
diff --git a/testscript/testdata/repo-tree.txtar b/testscript/testdata/repo-tree.txtar
index bc00ef03162484262b4f65707c95d4a7cfa8d94d..b3e6320de5f84429277f4f41829db9ee4544253f 100644
--- a/testscript/testdata/repo-tree.txtar
+++ b/testscript/testdata/repo-tree.txtar
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # vi: set ft=conf
 
 # convert crlf to lf on windows
-[windows] dos2unix tree1.txt tree2.txt tree3.txt
+[windows] dos2unix tree1.txt tree2.txt tree3.txt tree4.txt
 
 # start soft serve
 exec soft serve &
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ stderr 'file not found'
 ! stdout .
 stderr 'revision does not exist'
 
+# test unicode file name issue #457
+soft repo create repo4
+git clone ssh://localhost:$SSH_PORT/repo4 repo4
+mkfile ./repo4/🍕.md '🍕'
+git -C repo4 add -A
+git -C repo4 commit -m 'unicode'
+git -C repo4 push origin HEAD
+
+# print root tree
+soft repo tree repo4
+cmp stdout tree4.txt
+
 # stop the server
 [windows] stopserver
 
@@ -59,3 +71,5 @@ drwxrwxrwx	-	 folder
 -rw-r--r--	5 B	 aa.md
 -- tree3.txt --
 -rw-r--r--	2 B	 b.md
+-- tree4.txt --
+-rw-r--r--	4 B	 🍕.md