lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm | 6 +++---
 t/lei.t                | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index e29b13c3a798abf11a793eb29f7075e32579bf45..5f2650876b2844dd9da18b168c77e9e7125631a9 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ 		-d $cfg_dir or mkpath($cfg_dir) or die "mkpath($cfg_dir): $!\n";
 		open my $fh, '>>', $f or die "open($f): $!\n";
 		@st = stat($fh) or die "fstat($f): $!\n";
 		$cur_st = pack('dd', $st[10], $st[7]);
-		qerr($self, "I: $f created") if $self->{cmd} ne 'config';
+		qerr($self, "# $f created") if $self->{cmd} ne 'config';
 	}
 	my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config::git_config_dump($f);
 	$cfg->{-st} = $cur_st;
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ 	$dir = rel2abs($self, $dir);
 	my @cur = stat($cur) if defined($cur);
 	$cur = File::Spec->canonpath($cur // $dir);
 	my @dir = stat($dir);
-	my $exists = "I: leistore.dir=$cur already initialized" if @dir;
+	my $exists = "# leistore.dir=$cur already initialized" if @dir;
 	if (@cur) {
 		if ($cur eq $dir) {
 			_lei_store($self, 1)->done;
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@
 	}
 	lei_config($self, 'leistore.dir', $dir);
 	_lei_store($self, 1)->done;
-	$exists //= "I: leistore.dir=$dir newly initialized";
+	$exists //= "# leistore.dir=$dir newly initialized";
 	return qerr($self, $exists);
 }
 
diff --git a/t/lei.t b/t/lei.t
index 8e771eb5e54490faad4b53c6fff2052de85f8b86..4785accad9b30cc6f392785061e452a60e1356db 100644
--- a/t/lei.t
+++ b/t/lei.t
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ };
 
 my $ok_err_info = sub {
 	my ($msg) = @_;
-	is(grep(!/^I:/, split(/^/, $lei_err)), 0, $msg) or
+	is(grep(!/^#/, split(/^/, $lei_err)), 0, $msg) or
 		diag "$msg: err=$lei_err";
 };