Lack of updates since 2012 leads to problems. If the upcoming default push behavior (push.default = simple) is included in the .gitconfig file (as advised by recent versions of Git like 1.8 in Mavericks), Gitbox does not understand it and silently fails to update the status of local repos. Only explicit push request brings up the error dialog complaining about an “error” in the configuration file. The solution is to revert to one of the old behaviors - push.default = matching - old default, can be dangerous - or push.default = upstream - close to the new default.
Mr. Cogito about Gitbox