diff --git a/codecov_cli/helpers/versioning_systems.py b/codecov_cli/helpers/versioning_systems.py
index ffe2292f..f8d266dd 100644
--- a/codecov_cli/helpers/versioning_systems.py
+++ b/codecov_cli/helpers/versioning_systems.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def list_relevant_files(
         if recurse_submodules:
             cmd.append("--recurse-submodules")
         res = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True)
-        return res.stdout.decode().split("\0")
+        return res.stdout.decode(errors="surrogateescape").split("\0")
 
 
 class NoVersioningSystem(VersioningSystemInterface):