Small issue with Gitorious

I created a simple project to gitorious.org so that I can easily work on it from several locations. Of course I had issues, from one location I had problems getting through the firewall but I also had a minor issue from home.

Gitorious tells that I can clone the repository with

git clone http://git.gitorious.org/scheator/scheator.git

which worked but when I tried to push I got this error:

fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got '
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The git:// protocol is read-only.

Please use the push url as listed on the repository page.
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Reason is that the url for the repository is incorrect in .git/config. It looked like

url = git://gitorious.org/scheator/scheator.git

when in fact it should look like

url = git@gitorious.org:scheator/scheator.git

After I fixed that, it works. I can't figure out why this can't be correct in the first place without the need to fix it by hand.