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

Just do :

svn up `svn ls | grep -v big_dir`

Using "svn ls" You could update not only locally existing directories and files, but new files from repository. So, update is more complete, than just exclude. And You don't need to delete already existing files, like "--set-depth exclude" apparently does.