Ignore a folder during SVN updates

Question

If I svn:ignore a really big folder will it improve performance during SVN updates?

I have this really massive (>600MB) folder in my project. The files in this folder sh

Answer 1

You could do an svn update and specifically mention every other directory, e.g.

svn update dir1 dir2 dir3

Or, grep -v out what you don't want.

svn update `ls | grep -v big_dir`

Or, svn mv the big_dir up into another folder and change your build system to get the content from the other directory.