If you set the property with svn propset (adding the ignore list to the folder / help):
svn propset svn:ignore help
You can use the -depth flag when running svn commit:
svn ci --depth=immediates
This will skip the changes made to the files. You can also play with other values for - depth .
UPDATE
docs - depth = . ,
svn ci --depth=empty modified_target_folder
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