diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/DependencyFile.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/DependencyFile.cpp
index 53ea8befbc09..628def68e5e0 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/DependencyFile.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/DependencyFile.cpp
@@ -151,12 +151,14 @@ void DependencyFileCallback::AddFilename(StringRef Filename) {
     Files.push_back(Filename);
 }
 
-/// PrintFilename - GCC escapes spaces, but apparently not ' or " or other
-/// scary characters.
+/// PrintFilename - GCC escapes spaces, # and $, but apparently not ' or " or
+/// other scary characters.
 static void PrintFilename(raw_ostream &OS, StringRef Filename) {
   for (unsigned i = 0, e = Filename.size(); i != e; ++i) {
-    if (Filename[i] == ' ')
+    if (Filename[i] == ' ' || Filename[i] == '#')
       OS << '\\';
+    else if (Filename[i] == '$') // $ is escaped by $$.
+      OS << '$';
     OS << Filename[i];
   }
 }
diff --git a/clang/test/Frontend/dependency-gen-escaping.c b/clang/test/Frontend/dependency-gen-escaping.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84eb242ec3c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/Frontend/dependency-gen-escaping.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// REQUIRES: shell
+// PR15642
+// RUN: rm -rf %t.dir
+// RUN: mkdir -p %t.dir
+// RUN: echo > '%t.dir/    .h'
+// RUN: echo > '%t.dir/$$.h'
+// RUN: echo > '%t.dir/##.h'
+// RUN: cd %t.dir
+// RUN: %clang -MD -MF - %s -fsyntax-only -I. | FileCheck -strict-whitespace %s
+
+// CHECK: \ \ \ \ .h
+// CHECK: $$$$.h
+// CHECK: \#\#.h
+
+#include "    .h"
+#include "$$.h"
+#include "##.h"