Schematic symbols from GIT

I guess I’m more of a noob than I thought…

In Pcbnew under Preferences->Footprint Library Manager I set the plugin type to GitHub and the KGITHUB environmental variable points to https://github.com/KiCad. Are you saying that the footprint libraries are not actually being pulled from GitHub?

I’m very confused now…

I’ve used SVN but I’m totally new to GitHub…do I need to do a Git Clone somewhere on my PC and then add that relative path into my schematic symbol library…and this will keep everything automatically synced?