diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 17d3923..bb137ed 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -613,7 +613,6 @@
              keyboard-quit-context+
              db/convert-lf-to-crlf-in-buffer
              db/convert-crlf-to-lf-in-buffer
-             db/sync-magit-repos-from-projectile
              db/replace-variables-in-string
              db/dired-ediff-files
              db/grep-read-files
@@ -1519,7 +1518,8 @@ point to the beginning of buffer first."
 (use-package magit
   :ensure t
   :commands (magit-status
-             magit-list-repositories)
+             magit-list-repositories
+             db/sync-magit-repos-from-projectile)
 
   :init (progn
           (setq magit-diff-refine-hunk nil
@@ -1527,13 +1527,24 @@ point to the beginning of buffer first."
 
           (when on-windows
             ;; Experimental: on Windows, do not refresh magit-status-buffers
-            ;; that are not select, to increase performance.
+            ;; that are not selected, to increase performance.
             (setq magit-refresh-status-buffer nil)))
 
   :config (progn
             (when (fboundp 'global-magit-file-mode)
               (global-magit-file-mode -1))
-            (global-git-commit-mode +1)
+            (global-git-commit-mode 1)
+
+            (defun db/sync-magit-repos-from-projectile ()
+              "Update repositories known to magit from projectile's."
+              (interactive)
+              (eval-when-compile        ; to silence the byte compiler
+                (require 'projectile))
+              (setq magit-repository-directories
+                    (->> projectile-known-projects
+                         (--filter (and (not (file-remote-p it))
+                                        (file-exists-p (concat it "/.git"))))
+                         (--map (cons it 0)))))
 
             (db/sync-magit-repos-from-projectile)))
 
diff --git a/site-lisp/db-utils.el b/site-lisp/db-utils.el
index ece0ccc..7eaa21d 100644
--- a/site-lisp/db-utils.el
+++ b/site-lisp/db-utils.el
@@ -448,22 +448,6 @@ Does not replace CRLF with CRCRLF, and so on."
       (while (re-search-forward "\r\n" nil 'noerror)
         (replace-match "\n")))))
 
-(defun db/sync-magit-repos-from-projectile ()
-  "Update repositories known to magit from projectile's."
-  (interactive)
-  (eval-when-compile                    ; to silence the byte compiler
-    (require 'projectile)
-    (require 'magit))
-  (setq magit-repository-directories
-        (mapcar
-         (lambda (dir)
-           (cons (substring dir 0 -1) 0))
-         (cl-remove-if-not
-          (lambda (project)
-            (unless (file-remote-p project)
-              (file-exists-p (concat project "/.git"))))
-          projectile-known-projects))))
-
 (defun db/shr-render-file (file)
   "Display the HTML rending of the contents of FILE."
   (interactive "f")