diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index fe2d90b772..4818f25597 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1663,7 +1663,6 @@ extern off_t find_pack_entry_one(const unsigned char *sha1, struct packed_git *)
 
 extern int is_pack_valid(struct packed_git *);
 extern void *unpack_entry(struct packed_git *, off_t, enum object_type *, unsigned long *);
-extern int unpack_object_header(struct packed_git *, struct pack_window **, off_t *, unsigned long *);
 
 /*
  * Iterate over the files in the loose-object parts of the object
diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c
index 9e0bbf5a0e..d4a78b1ac9 100644
--- a/packfile.c
+++ b/packfile.c
@@ -949,3 +949,29 @@ unsigned long get_size_from_delta(struct packed_git *p,
 	/* Read the result size */
 	return get_delta_hdr_size(&data, delta_head+sizeof(delta_head));
 }
+
+int unpack_object_header(struct packed_git *p,
+			 struct pack_window **w_curs,
+			 off_t *curpos,
+			 unsigned long *sizep)
+{
+	unsigned char *base;
+	unsigned long left;
+	unsigned long used;
+	enum object_type type;
+
+	/* use_pack() assures us we have [base, base + 20) available
+	 * as a range that we can look at.  (Its actually the hash
+	 * size that is assured.)  With our object header encoding
+	 * the maximum deflated object size is 2^137, which is just
+	 * insane, so we know won't exceed what we have been given.
+	 */
+	base = use_pack(p, w_curs, *curpos, &left);
+	used = unpack_object_header_buffer(base, left, &type, sizep);
+	if (!used) {
+		type = OBJ_BAD;
+	} else
+		*curpos += used;
+
+	return type;
+}
diff --git a/packfile.h b/packfile.h
index c2ae717d4c..ca76fbf5b0 100644
--- a/packfile.h
+++ b/packfile.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ extern struct packed_git *add_packed_git(const char *path, size_t path_len, int
 
 extern unsigned long unpack_object_header_buffer(const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long len, enum object_type *type, unsigned long *sizep);
 extern unsigned long get_size_from_delta(struct packed_git *, struct pack_window **, off_t);
+extern int unpack_object_header(struct packed_git *, struct pack_window **, off_t *, unsigned long *);
 
 extern void release_pack_memory(size_t);
 
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 38c1084560..ccf225f055 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -1172,32 +1172,6 @@ static const unsigned char *get_delta_base_sha1(struct packed_git *p,
 		return NULL;
 }
 
-int unpack_object_header(struct packed_git *p,
-			 struct pack_window **w_curs,
-			 off_t *curpos,
-			 unsigned long *sizep)
-{
-	unsigned char *base;
-	unsigned long left;
-	unsigned long used;
-	enum object_type type;
-
-	/* use_pack() assures us we have [base, base + 20) available
-	 * as a range that we can look at.  (Its actually the hash
-	 * size that is assured.)  With our object header encoding
-	 * the maximum deflated object size is 2^137, which is just
-	 * insane, so we know won't exceed what we have been given.
-	 */
-	base = use_pack(p, w_curs, *curpos, &left);
-	used = unpack_object_header_buffer(base, left, &type, sizep);
-	if (!used) {
-		type = OBJ_BAD;
-	} else
-		*curpos += used;
-
-	return type;
-}
-
 static int retry_bad_packed_offset(struct packed_git *p, off_t obj_offset)
 {
 	int type;