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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ When an invalid glob is given in `globs`, throws an error with the message, "Inv
| name | type | default | note |
|:--------:|:------:|------------|--------|
+| encoding | string
boolean | "utf8" | When false, file contents are treated as binary. When a string, this is used as the text encoding. |
| buffer | boolean
function | true | When true, file contents are buffered into memory. If false, the Vinyl object's `contents` property will be a paused stream. It may not be possible to buffer the contents of large files.
**Note:** Plugins may not implement support for streaming contents. |
| read | boolean
function | true | If false, files will be not be read and their Vinyl objects won't be writable to disk via `.dest()`. |
| since | date
timestamp
function | | When set, only creates Vinyl objects for files modified since the specified time. |