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

Apart from what @Bill Brasky said, one suggestion is to move the huge folder into an external. That way you can do svn up --ignore-externals

If you don't want the huge folder in your working copy, you can have a look at sparse checkouts:

svn checkout repo . --depth empty
svn up other dirs