I just tried it with darcs-2-format source repository, and got the  
same failure as earlier:

On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Zooko wrote:

> 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