patches/gitstatus/mainline.diff  | 2 +-
 patches/gitstatus/namefirst.diff | 2 +-

diff --git a/patches/gitstatus/mainline.diff b/patches/gitstatus/mainline.diff
index f8d4b78478fd9df69fea2fd6f0cdc772359e6749..64d39f9fd6712b3fc163c684871b0877f3cb5499 100644
--- a/patches/gitstatus/mainline.diff
+++ b/patches/gitstatus/mainline.diff
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ +	char pathspec[PATH_MAX], status[PATH_MAX];
 +	size_t i = -1;
 +	git_statuses.show = FALSE;
 +	workdir[xstrlen(workdir) - 1] = '\0';
-+	snprintf(pathspec, PATH_MAX, "%s%s%s 2>/dev/null", gitstat, path, cfg.showhidden ? "" : "/*");
++	snprintf(pathspec, PATH_MAX, "%s\"%s\"%s 2>/dev/null", gitstat, path, cfg.showhidden ? "" : "/*");
 +	fp = popen(pathspec, "r");
 +
 +	while (fgets(status, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
diff --git a/patches/gitstatus/namefirst.diff b/patches/gitstatus/namefirst.diff
index f6f1660a74f876fd46ce52f3d951e1eb35cc208b..fe962d94c4d5dfae06de5c2c00c13f62b3363307 100644
--- a/patches/gitstatus/namefirst.diff
+++ b/patches/gitstatus/namefirst.diff
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ +	char pathspec[PATH_MAX], status[PATH_MAX];
 +	size_t i = -1;
 +	git_statuses.show = FALSE;
 +	workdir[xstrlen(workdir) - 1] = '\0';
-+	snprintf(pathspec, PATH_MAX, "%s%s%s 2>/dev/null", gitstat, path, cfg.showhidden ? "" : "/*");
++	snprintf(pathspec, PATH_MAX, "%s\"%s\"%s 2>/dev/null", gitstat, path, cfg.showhidden ? "" : "/*");
 +	fp = popen(pathspec, "r");
 +
 +	while (fgets(status, PATH_MAX, fp)) {