Failed to clone repo on Windows due to a colon in dir names

[flopacero]

While trying to clone this repo on Windows I failed with

Cloning into 'HTMLCSS-QuickStartGuide'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1682, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (248/248), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (109/109), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (1682/1682), 663.63 KiB | 4.25 MiB/s, done. 1434

Resolving deltas: 100% (886/886), done.
fatal: cannot create directory at '01-Chapter 1: HTML & CSS—The Basics and the Bigger Picture': Invalid argument
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

It's all due to names of files with colon :

[flopacero]

Quick solution is to download the repo as zip and loose the git repo but be able to access files (they will be renamed
automatically. More robust solution is proposed on this StackOverflow issue. But hopefully authors of this repo will be able to rename files to avoid problems.