here is a cut and paste from bash:

Regards,

Zooko

HACK yumyum:~/work$ time darcs get -v -v -v  zooko@dev.allmydata.com:trees/trunk-new-coders
Directory '/mnt/sdb1/zooko/work/trunk-new-coders' already exists, creating repository as '/mnt/sdb1/zooko/work/trunk-new-coders_0'
Getting the inventory...
Copying patches...

darcs failed:  (sftp) failed to fetch files.
source directory: trees/trunk-new-coders/_darcs/patches
source files:
20060811123125-0cecc-3cd81cc2f9c81d4b2b81ad4b3abf69b3b8308b8e.gz
20060810222133-0cecc-759ae15bb2f9d37d864c71f191a47c7bc171feb0.gz
20060810215354-0cecc-645f4b271f57e40a40fa3f7705b77f5df3f08ffe.gz
20060805162947-0cecc-05c7e29247a71fccb83442a3879393c1d60ee87c.gz
20060805001901-0cecc-15082a4d73a76a4e9432b86b19f9b9d16d29558e.gz
and 1699 more
sftp output:
sftp: illegal option -- q
usage: sftp [-1Cv] [-B buffer_size] [-b batchfile] [-F ssh_config]
            [-o ssh_option] [-P sftp_server_path] [-R num_requests]
            [-S program] [-s subsystem | sftp_server] host
       sftp [[user@]host[:file [file]]]
       sftp [[user@]host[:dir[/]]]
       sftp -b batchfile [user@]host

real    0m9.956s
user    0m0.424s
sys     0m0.064s

fixed in 1.0.9