diff --git a/git/config.py b/git/config.py
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ def string_decode(v: str) -> str:
                        is_multi_line = True
                        optval = string_decode(optval[1:])
                    elif len(optval) > 1 and optval[0] == '"' and optval[-1] == '"':
-                        optval = optval[1:-1].strip()
                    # END handle multi-line
                    # Preserves multiple values for duplicate optnames.
                    cursect.add(optname, optval)

diff --git a/test/fixtures/git_config_with_quotes_whitespace b/test/fixtures/git_config_with_quotes_whitespace
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@