diff --git a/home-manager/home-manager b/home-manager/home-manager
index 8e5fb4c5..9703505d 100644
--- a/home-manager/home-manager
+++ b/home-manager/home-manager
@@ -398,9 +398,10 @@ $xdgVars
   };
 
   # Home Manager can also manage your environment variables through
-  # 'home.sessionVariables'. If you don't want to manage your shell through Home
-  # Manager then you have to manually source 'hm-session-vars.sh' located at
-  # either
+  # 'home.sessionVariables'. These will be explicitly sourced when using a
+  # shell provided by Home Manager. If you don't want to manage your shell
+  # through Home Manager then you have to manually source 'hm-session-vars.sh'
+  # located at either
   #
   #  ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh
   #
diff --git a/tests/integration/standalone/alice-home-init.nix b/tests/integration/standalone/alice-home-init.nix
index c5abf850..3aab1897 100644
--- a/tests/integration/standalone/alice-home-init.nix
+++ b/tests/integration/standalone/alice-home-init.nix
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@
   };
 
   # Home Manager can also manage your environment variables through
-  # 'home.sessionVariables'. If you don't want to manage your shell through Home
-  # Manager then you have to manually source 'hm-session-vars.sh' located at
-  # either
+  # 'home.sessionVariables'. These will be explicitly sourced when using a
+  # shell provided by Home Manager. If you don't want to manage your shell
+  # through Home Manager then you have to manually source 'hm-session-vars.sh'
+  # located at either
   #
   #  ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh
   #