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For a section represented by a column $u$, expand the covariant exterior derivative using the graded Leibniz rule:Therefore the Cartan curvature matrix equation isThe product includes endomorphism composition; it need not vanish for a matrix-valued one-form. For a scalar frame change $g$, $A^{\prime }=A+g^{-1}dg$ and $d(g^{-1}dg)=0$, confirming that the line-bundle two-forms $dA$ patch globally.

A covariant derivative on the tangent bundle is an affine connection: it assigns a vector field ${\nabla }_{X}Y$ to vector fields $X,Y$, is linear over smooth functions in $X$, is real-linear in $Y$, and obeys the Leibniz rule ${\nabla }_X(aY)=X(a)Y+a{\nabla }_{X}Y$. Thus it differentiates a vector field while taking account of how its local basis changes. It extends to tensor fields by the Leibniz rule, compatibility with tensor contraction, and ${\nabla }_{X}a=X(a)$ for a scalar.

In a local basis $e_{\mu }$, the connection components are defined by ${\nabla }_{e_{\rho }}{e}_{\nu }={\Gamma }^{\mu }{}_{\nu \rho }{e}_{\mu }$. In a coordinate basis, $e_{\rho }={\partial }_{\rho }$, soA covariant derivative of a tensor field has tensorial transformation properties, but the connection components themselves do not: changing the coordinate basis introduces second derivatives of the coordinate change. They describe the connection in a chosen basis, rather than components of a tensor.