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

svn file structure:
trunk
|___ folder1
|___ folder2
|___ folder3
|___ other_folder

first when checkout , use immediates , only checkout first level folder and files :

• svn co svn://svn-xxxx.com/svn/develop/trunk --depth immediates trunk,

then , set some folder for update later:

• cd trunk
• svn up folder1 folder2 folder3 --set-depth infinity

ok, now noly folder 123 will be able to update, and other first level folder still remain in the trunk folder