Question

Various documentation such as

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Set+up+SSH+for+Git

and

http://help.github.com/ssh-key-passphrases/

Refer to restarting git bash. How do I do this from Linux?

Answer 1

This is referring to the Git Bash shell which is installed via Cygwin on Windows systems. If you need to do this on Linux, simply close and reopen your terminal window. Often you can replace this step with source ~/.bashrc