SVN: Can you remove directories from a local checkout only (not from the repository)?

Question

Assume that you have a directory under subversion control, that contains some files and tons of subdirectories, like that:

file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
dir1/
di         


        

Answer 1

Update: I'm running SVN 1.6.11 and I was able to de-telescope using svn up --set-depth empty dir rather that having to exclude the directory.