I think he doesn't want to add too many addons path folders and find a way to clone several repositories in just one addons folder. I am interesting in this information too. Does anyone know if we can do this?

@Luke: it isn't that simple because you will not clone one single Module with the command you suggest but a batch of Modules inside of a higer-level folder. Like this you have ~/custom/addons/folder/Module1, Module2, Module2, ... etc. so you would have to add ~/custom/addons/folder/Module1,~custom/addons/folder/Module2,~/custom/addons/folder/Module3,...etc That gives a lot of entries ..... I wonder it the OCA people have a suggestion how to handle this most efficiently. Maybe they didn;t think that through and leave it to any user to decide how to manage that ...

@Luke: it isn't that simple because you will not clone one single Module with the command you suggest but a batch of Modules inside of a higer-level folder. Like this you have ~/custom/addons/folder/Module1, Module2, Module2, ... etc. so you would have to add ~/custom/addons/folder/Module1,~custom/addons/folder/Module2,~/custom/addons/folder/Module3,...etc That gives a lot of entries ..... I wonder if the OCA people have a suggestion how to handle this most efficiently. Maybe they didn;t think that through and leave it to any user to decide how to manage that ...

so then the folder /opt/openerp/custorm/addons_dev is where you git clone into right? Do you list the symlinks in your 'official' addons folder in a .gitignore file, so when you update (git merge ...) your installation those will be ignored?

ok, the symlinks work fine. I think that's an elegant way to work make an external modules folder like /opt/ocb/ocb-server/addons-clone and add symlinks as discribed in the "official" addons folder. When making a update modules list from inside you OpenERP/Odoo via the browser of your choice (firefox most likely) OpenERP finds the linked addons as well