Is there a consensus about the meaning of the Christoffel symbols' indices?

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The discussion centers on the interpretation of the indices of Christoffel symbols as presented in Giancarlo Bernacchi's "Tensors Made Easy" and Daniel Fleisch's "A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors." Both sources provide differing explanations regarding the meaning of the two lower indices in the Christoffel symbols. The formula for the Christoffel symbols is defined as $$\Gamma^i_{jk}=\frac 12g^{il}\left(\partial_jg_{kl}+\partial_jg_{lk}-\partial_lg_{jk}\right)$$, which is symmetric in the lower indices, indicating that the specific roles of these indices can be interchanged without loss of generality. This suggests that there is no definitive consensus on the interpretation of these indices.

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Is there a consensus about the meaning of the Christoffel symbols' indices?
This is from Giancarlo Bernacchi's book "Tensors made easy":

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And this is from Daniel Fleisch's book "A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors":
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The meaning of the two lower indices is exchanged in the two explanations. Is one of them correct and the other one wrong, or is there no consensus about this?
 
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The Christoffel symbols are given by$$\Gamma^i_{jk}=\frac 12g^{il}\left(
\partial_jg_{kl}
+\partial_jg_{lk}
-\partial_lg_{jk}
\right)$$This is symmetric in the lower indices, so it makes no difference which of those indices you define as doing what.
 
I see, thank you.
 
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