I ran this command on Windows, using the darcs.exe from 2008-02-06:

time darcs get --hashed --verbose --debug-verbose $USER@$HOST:$REPO

The remote host repo was in hashed format.  This was the result:

ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104 darcs transfer-mode --repodir  
playground/pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf/
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get prefs/motd
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get format
Beginning identifying repository  
wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf
P: Identifying repository wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/ 
pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf : inventory
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get inventory
P: Identifying repository wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/ 
pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf : hashed_inventory
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get hashed_inventory
P: Identifying repository wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/ 
pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf : format
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get format
Done identifying repository wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/ 
pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get prefs/sources
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get hashed_inventory
Copying hashed pristine tree: eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6
Beginning copying pristine
Reading hash file eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6 from  
pristine.hashed/
I'm doing copyFileUsingCache on eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get pristine.hashed/ 
eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6
In fetchFileUsingCachePrivate I'm going manually
     getting eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6
     from wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/pycryptopp/ 
pycryptopp-hf/_darcs/pristine.hashed/ 
eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6
with ssh wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104: get pristine.hashed/ 
eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6

darcs failed:  Couldn't fetch `eda419cf0416724dd8ba82f5aaa0220fa0d858a6'
in subdir pristine.hashed from sources:

thisrepo:c:/playground/pycryptopp-hf
repo:wonwinmcbrootles@192.168.1.104:playground/pycryptopp/pycryptopp-hf

Writing working directory contents...