Comment 7 for bug 1090118

Revisiting the Wikimedia documentation, it was pointed out to me that the example in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow#Clone_the_repository does indeed demonstrate cloning from an ssh:// URL for the remote rather than the https:// URL you used. It might perhaps help if that document were clearer on the point that this technique must use SSH for any remote named "gerrit" to be compatible with git-review.

The default port handling strangeness (or at least something which will require us to solve it) is already reported in bug 1075751, but in this case fixing that None == str(None) comparison would not have solved your issue anyway.