how can I tell vimdiff to ignore whitespace?

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I made a number of changes in a file I'm working on, including indentation changes. I'm using to compare the file to the original version, and I don't want to see these changes, since they're basically cosmetic. How can I tell to ignore whitespace during the comparison?

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