svn: how to ignore deletion of files on update

Using svn, here is a little intro of my situation:

• My working copy is at revision XX.
• Someone added a directory and images at revision YY.
• On revision ZZ, I deleted those images (but not the directory) to add a property svn:ignore for all images.

Is there a way to update a working copy from re开发者_开发知识库vision XX to revision ZZ without deleting those images. The images are still used, but are not needed to be versionned.

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the easiest is to copy them outside the directory, do your update, then copy them back in as now-unversioned files. The simplest solution is often the best.

Or you could just update and let the system delete them, then fetch them from where-ever the master versions of them are stored.

Lastly, I think you can update the directory with a sparse option to ignore children, then the directory gets the update state, but the contents are not affected. I imagine a further update to the directory (with a deeper operation) will keep the files afterwards as technically, they're already removed from the directory. Don't quote me on that one -try it.