diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryCache.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryCache.java
index 53e9fe3c5..efbbfbce2 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryCache.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryCache.java
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /** Cache of active {@link Repository} instances. */
 public class RepositoryCache {
-	private static final RepositoryCache cache = new RepositoryCache();
-
 	private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
 			.getLogger(RepositoryCache.class);
 
+	private static final RepositoryCache cache = new RepositoryCache();
+
 	/**
 	 * Open an existing repository, reusing a cached instance if possible.
 	 * <p>
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
index 1cc39bd46..5cc8afc78 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /** Abstraction to support various file system operations not in Java. */
 public abstract class FS {
+	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FS.class);
+
 	/**
 	 * This class creates FS instances. It will be overridden by a Java7 variant
 	 * if such can be detected in {@link #detect(Boolean)}.
@@ -158,8 +160,6 @@ public abstract class FS {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FS.class);
-
 	/** The auto-detected implementation selected for this operating system and JRE. */
 	public static final FS DETECTED = detect();