error with 'west update' on Windows 10

[andrewboie]

Describe the bug

PS C:\Users\andrew\projects\zephyr> west update
...
=== updating civetweb (modules\lib\civetweb):
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
...
ERROR: update failed for project civetweb
PS C:\Users\andrew\projects\zephyr>

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Set up windows 10 zephyr environment with chocolatey, and try to west init.

Expected behavior
No errors.

Impact
Unsure what depends on this.

[carlescufi]

This seems to be a duplicate of #21426. See there for a workaround.