Geodesics: "Transporting tangent vectors in parallel" vs. "Preserving the tangent vector under parallel transport"

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Wikipedia states:
"[...] More generally, in the presence of an affine connection, a geodesic is defined to be a curve whose tangent vectors remain parallel if they are transported along it."

Does this characterization apply to solutions $\gamma[ \, t \, ]$ of $$ \nabla_{\dot \gamma} \! \left[ \, \frac{\dot \gamma}{\|\dot \gamma\|} \, \right] = 0 \tag{1} $$ ?

Wikipedia continues:
"A geodesic on a smooth manifold $M$ with an affine connection $\nabla$ is defined as a curve $\gamma[ \, t \, ]$ such that parallel transport along the curve preserves the tangent vector to the curve, so" $$ \nabla_{\dot \gamma}[ \, \dot \gamma \, ] = 0 \tag{2}$$

Is there additional terminology available for distinguishing between solutions of eq. (1) and solutions of eq. (2) ?