diff --git a/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/git-hasher.ts b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/git-hasher.ts
index 3e19941b78..02372396de 100644
--- a/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/git-hasher.ts
+++ b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/git-hasher.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
-import { join } from 'path';
 import { statSync } from 'fs';
+import { join } from 'path';
+import { spawnProcess } from './spawn-process';
 
 function parseGitLsTree(output: string): Map<string, string> {
   const changes: Map<string, string> = new Map<string, string>();
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function parseGitStatus(path: string): Map<string, string> {
   // we need to manually strip the root path from the filenames.
   const prefix = spawnProcess('git', ['rev-parse', '--show-prefix'], path);
 
-  var chunks = output.split('\0');
+  const chunks = output.split('\0');
   for (let i = 0; i < chunks.length; i++) {
     const chunk = chunks[i];
     if (chunk.length) {
@@ -52,16 +52,6 @@ function parseGitStatus(path: string): Map<string, string> {
   return changes;
 }
 
-function spawnProcess(command: string, args: string[], cwd: string): string {
-  const r = spawnSync(command, args, { cwd, maxBuffer: 50 * 1024 * 1024 });
-  if (r.status !== 0) {
-    throw new Error(
-      `Failed to run ${command} ${args.join(' ')}.\n${r.stdout}\n${r.stderr}`
-    );
-  }
-  return r.stdout.toString().trimEnd();
-}
-
 function getGitHashForFiles(
   filesToHash: string[],
   path: string
diff --git a/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.spec.ts b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d2b2a0cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import * as childProcess from 'child_process';
+import { spawnProcess } from './spawn-process';
+
+describe('spawnProcess()', () => {
+  let spy: jest.SpyInstance<
+    childProcess.SpawnSyncReturns<Buffer>,
+    [
+      command: string,
+      args?: readonly string[],
+      options?: childProcess.SpawnSyncOptions
+    ]
+  >;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    spy = jest.spyOn(childProcess, 'spawnSync');
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    spy.mockReset();
+    spy.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  it('should call spawnSync and return the stdout', () => {
+    const mockedStdout = 'stdout';
+    spy.mockImplementation(() => {
+      return {
+        status: 0,
+        stdout: mockedStdout,
+      } as any;
+    });
+    const output = spawnProcess('git', ['status', '-s', '-u', '-z', '.'], '');
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(output).toEqual(mockedStdout);
+  });
+
+  it('should work even when ANSI escape characters are present in the child process output - https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/7022', () => {
+    spy.mockImplementation(() => {
+      return {
+        status: 0,
+        // ANSI escaped characters can come through in the child process output, as reported here: https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/7022
+        stdout:
+          ' \x1B[7;33mM\x1B[m packages/semver/src/generators/install/index.spec.ts\x00',
+      } as any;
+    });
+
+    const output = spawnProcess('git', ['status', '-s', '-u', '-z', '.'], '');
+    expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    /**
+     * Ensure the ANSI escaped characters have been stripped
+     * (the remaining trailing \0 is expected as part of the real-world git output)
+     */
+    expect(output).toEqual(
+      ' M packages/semver/src/generators/install/index.spec.ts\0'
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.ts b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bea128fc4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/workspace/src/core/hasher/spawn-process.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+
+// We can't use an import for this package because of how it is published
+const stripAnsi = require('strip-ansi');
+
+/**
+ * We separated this out into its own file to make it much easier to unit test
+ * and ensure that ANSI escape codes are appropriately stripped so that utilities
+ * in git-hasher work as intended in all cases.
+ */
+export function spawnProcess(
+  command: string,
+  args: string[],
+  cwd: string
+): string {
+  const r = spawnSync(command, args, { cwd, maxBuffer: 50 * 1024 * 1024 });
+  if (r.status !== 0) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Failed to run ${command} ${args.join(' ')}.\n${r.stdout}\n${r.stderr}`
+    );
+  }
+  const output = r.stdout.toString().trimEnd();
+
+  // We use strip-ansi to prevent issues such as https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/7022
+  return stripAnsi(output);
+}
diff --git a/scripts/depcheck/missing.ts b/scripts/depcheck/missing.ts
index ad23cf1fea..f4a9b3cde6 100644
--- a/scripts/depcheck/missing.ts
+++ b/scripts/depcheck/missing.ts
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ const IGNORE_MATCHES = {
     'karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter',
     'karma-jasmine',
     'karma-jasmine-html-reporter',
+    'strip-ansi',
     'webpack',
     'webpack-dev-server',
   ],