How to update the svn properties but not all files of a folder

Question

In my coding environment I've got a dev, test and production machine. Sometimes I have to add files to svn:ignore for all machines. But if I want to update these properties, I have to make an update on a whole folder instead of only some stable files.

Is there any chance to get only the update of the folder properties (like svn:ignore) but without updating all the new and maybe instable files?

Answer 1

svn update --depth empty <path> will do that.

The deprecated svn update --non-recursive <path> suggested in a different answer also updates the directory-contents too; just like you suspected.