[solved]fatal: branch 'stable' has not been signed

Problem:

Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
error: The requested URL returned error: 403
error: The requested URL returned error: 403

fatal: branch 'stable' has not been signed

Solution: If you are not behind any network proxy, your git version must be too low. Update git.

see how to install git 1.7 on ubuntu 8.03