diff --git a/my/cfg.py b/my/cfg.py
index da1a83e..97268da 100644
--- a/my/cfg.py
+++ b/my/cfg.py
@@ -12,15 +12,12 @@ After that, you can set config attributes:
       export_path='/path/to/twitter/exports',
   )
 """
-# TODO later, If I have config stubs that might be unnecessary too..
-
-from . import init  # todo not sure if this line is necessary? the stub will trigger it anyway
-
+# todo why do we bring this into scope? don't remember..
 import my.config as config
 
 
 def set_repo(name: str, repo):
-    from .init import assign_module
+    from .core.init import assign_module
     from . common import import_from
 
     module = import_from(repo, name)
diff --git a/my/config/__init__.py b/my/config/__init__.py
index da9d781..333ae6e 100644
--- a/my/config/__init__.py
+++ b/my/config/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # TODO ok, this thing should trigger .cfg import presumably??
-from .. import init
+from ..core import init
 
 # TODO maybe, reuse mycfg_template here?
 
diff --git a/my/init.py b/my/core/init.py
similarity index 100%
rename from my/init.py
rename to my/core/init.py