The geodesics are straight lines, in geodesic normal coordinates, just when the associated projective connection is flat, i.e. the Weyl tensor vanishes. See Kobayashi and Nagano, On projective connections, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, vol. 13, no. 2, 1964.
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