"For" with "usebackq" not using back quotes

I have a batch file which was working quite happily, until the last couple of runs, and now it's not.
The offending code is as follows:

set uncommittedchanges=1
for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%a in (`"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" -C "\my\git\repository" status`) do (
if "%%a" == "nothing to commit, working directory clean" (
set uncommittedchanges=0
)
)

And the error I am getting is

> 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I'm sure I haven't made any changes to these lines since it was last working, and I can't see anything wrong with the code as it stands.

Can anyone spot what's wrong, or suggest a setting I may have inadvertently changed that affects usebackq?

It's a bug of the invoking the child cmd.exe instance.
You need to use a workaround to avoid that the first token uses unescaped spaces.

The simplest way is to use `CALL` as it moves your program-token to the second place, and there it works without problems.

for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%a in (`CALL "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" -C "\my\git\repository" status`) do (


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