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Apr
2
 comment Different notions of geodesics.
This should be in most Riemannian geometry textbooks. The first implies the second by first variation of length (or energy), while the second implies the first via existence of convex neighborhoods (With Gauss Lemma being the important ingredient).
Apr
2
 answered Difference between parallel transport and derivative of the exponential map