A conflicting mutation changes information paths that overlap with another mutation. Compare the structural diffs from a shared previous state: a common path signals that the mutations cannot be safely combined without resolving the overlap. section 5.4
The library catalog test
One mutation changes Watchmen’s publication year; another changes its title and Dave Gibbons’s name. Their paths are publicationYear, title, and author name, so they are nonconflicting. If two mutations report the same information path, they are conflicting.
