Geodesic Equation - Physics Explained

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The bigger words is the main description.
The smaller words is my own work,
I don't know if I get the wrong Christoffel connections or something else.
 
The Lie bracket of the two unit vector fields, (1 + z[itex]\bar{z}[/itex])[itex]\partial[/itex]x

and (1 + z[itex]\bar{z}[/itex])[itex]\partial[/itex]y

is orthogonal to (1 + z[itex]\bar{z}[/itex])[itex]\partial[/itex]x
along the x-axis and so is tangent to a geodesic.

Now use the symmetry of the metric to solve the general case.