How do I check a File out from Github with a colon in it's name?

If this came up in a Google search, welcome Windows Developers. After decades of experience across multiple different stacks, I finally ran into a puzzling problem. I couldn't check out a repo some of the files had colons in the file name. That's a first for me. Apparently, a colon in the file name is not allowed on Windows machines, but is okay on various forms of Linux, which includes Macs.…