diff --git a/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.test.ts b/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.test.ts
index 344079f87..9180e4228 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.test.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.test.ts
@@ -255,8 +255,35 @@ describe('compileGenericGitHostConfig_url', () => {
 
         expect(result.repoData).toHaveLength(1);
         expect(result.repoData[0].name).toBe('github.com/test/repo');
-        
+
         const metadata = result.repoData[0].metadata as { gitConfig?: Record<string, string> };
         expect(metadata.gitConfig!['zoekt.name']).toBe('github.com/test/repo');
     });
+
+    test('should decode URL-encoded characters in the direct url pathname', async () => {
+        // Regression for #1384: the file-origin path already calls
+        // decodeURIComponent on the origin URL pathname, but the direct-URL
+        // path did not. The same remote configured two different ways
+        // produced different `name`/`displayName` values, which broke
+        // search-index metadata and gave the same repo inconsistent
+        // identifiers depending on how it was configured.
+        mockedIsUrlAValidGitRepo.mockResolvedValue(true);
+
+        const config = {
+            type: 'git' as const,
+            url: 'https://github.com/test/Project%20Name%20With%20Spaces.git',
+        };
+
+        const result = await compileGenericGitHostConfig_url(config, 1);
+
+        expect(result.repoData).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(result.warnings).toHaveLength(0);
+        // The repo name should have decoded spaces, not %20
+        expect(result.repoData[0].name).toBe('github.com/test/Project Name With Spaces');
+        expect(result.repoData[0].displayName).toBe('github.com/test/Project Name With Spaces');
+
+        const metadata = result.repoData[0].metadata as { gitConfig?: Record<string, string> };
+        expect(metadata.gitConfig!['zoekt.name']).toBe('github.com/test/Project Name With Spaces');
+        expect(metadata.gitConfig!['zoekt.display-name']).toBe('github.com/test/Project Name With Spaces');
+    });
 });
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.ts b/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.ts
index 1e65565f1..f43a66969 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/repoCompileUtils.ts
@@ -726,7 +726,13 @@ export const compileGenericGitHostConfig_url = async (
 
     // @note: matches the naming here:
     // https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/zoekt/blob/main/gitindex/index.go#L293
-    const repoName = path.join(remoteUrl.host, remoteUrl.pathname.replace(/\.git$/, ''));
+    // Decode URL-encoded characters (e.g., %20 -> space) so that a direct URL
+    // config derives the same repo name as a file-origin config whose origin
+    // URL gets decoded by the same call below. Without this, a URL like
+    // `https://github.com/test/Project%20Name.git` and a file config pointing
+    // at the same remote end up with different `name`/`displayName` values.
+    const decodedPathname = decodeURIComponent(remoteUrl.pathname);
+    const repoName = path.join(remoteUrl.host, decodedPathname.replace(/\.git$/, ''));
 
     const repo: RepoData = {
         external_codeHostType: 'genericGitHost',