diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index d0e105ec58f..fdb3125f00d 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@
 #include "pack-revindex.h"
 #include "hash.h"
 #include "path.h"
+#include "pathspec.h"
 #include "object.h"
 #include "oid-array.h"
 #include "repository.h"
+#include "statinfo.h"
 #include "mem-pool.h"
 
 typedef struct git_zstream {
@@ -119,26 +121,6 @@ struct cache_header {
 #define INDEX_FORMAT_LB 2
 #define INDEX_FORMAT_UB 4
 
-/*
- * The "cache_time" is just the low 32 bits of the
- * time. It doesn't matter if it overflows - we only
- * check it for equality in the 32 bits we save.
- */
-struct cache_time {
-	uint32_t sec;
-	uint32_t nsec;
-};
-
-struct stat_data {
-	struct cache_time sd_ctime;
-	struct cache_time sd_mtime;
-	unsigned int sd_dev;
-	unsigned int sd_ino;
-	unsigned int sd_uid;
-	unsigned int sd_gid;
-	unsigned int sd_size;
-};
-
 struct cache_entry {
 	struct hashmap_entry ent;
 	struct stat_data ce_stat_data;
@@ -294,6 +276,15 @@ static inline unsigned int canon_mode(unsigned int mode)
 	return S_IFGITLINK;
 }
 
+static inline int ce_path_match(struct index_state *istate,
+				const struct cache_entry *ce,
+				const struct pathspec *pathspec,
+				char *seen)
+{
+	return match_pathspec(istate, pathspec, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce), 0, seen,
+			      S_ISDIR(ce->ce_mode) || S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode));
+}
+
 #define cache_entry_size(len) (offsetof(struct cache_entry,name) + (len) + 1)
 
 #define SOMETHING_CHANGED	(1 << 0) /* unclassified changes go here */
diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 8acfc044181..fc4386ae50e 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef DIR_H
 #define DIR_H
 
-#include "cache.h"
 #include "hashmap.h"
+#include "pathspec.h"
+#include "statinfo.h"
 #include "strbuf.h"
 
 /**
@@ -363,10 +364,6 @@ int count_slashes(const char *s);
 int simple_length(const char *match);
 int no_wildcard(const char *string);
 char *common_prefix(const struct pathspec *pathspec);
-int match_pathspec(struct index_state *istate,
-		   const struct pathspec *pathspec,
-		   const char *name, int namelen,
-		   int prefix, char *seen, int is_dir);
 int report_path_error(const char *ps_matched, const struct pathspec *pathspec);
 int within_depth(const char *name, int namelen, int depth, int max_depth);
 
@@ -533,15 +530,6 @@ int submodule_path_match(struct index_state *istate,
 			 const char *submodule_name,
 			 char *seen);
 
-static inline int ce_path_match(struct index_state *istate,
-				const struct cache_entry *ce,
-				const struct pathspec *pathspec,
-				char *seen)
-{
-	return match_pathspec(istate, pathspec, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce), 0, seen,
-			      S_ISDIR(ce->ce_mode) || S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode));
-}
-
 static inline int dir_path_match(struct index_state *istate,
 				 const struct dir_entry *ent,
 				 const struct pathspec *pathspec,
diff --git a/pathspec.h b/pathspec.h
index 41f6adfbb42..a5b38e0907a 100644
--- a/pathspec.h
+++ b/pathspec.h
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ int match_pathspec_attrs(struct index_state *istate,
 			 const char *name, int namelen,
 			 const struct pathspec_item *item);
 
+int match_pathspec(struct index_state *istate,
+		   const struct pathspec *pathspec,
+		   const char *name, int namelen,
+		   int prefix, char *seen, int is_dir);
+
 /*
  * Determine whether a pathspec will match only entire index entries (non-sparse
  * files and/or entire sparse directories). If the pathspec has the potential to
diff --git a/statinfo.h b/statinfo.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e49e3054eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/statinfo.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef STATINFO_H
+#define STATINFO_H
+
+/*
+ * The "cache_time" is just the low 32 bits of the
+ * time. It doesn't matter if it overflows - we only
+ * check it for equality in the 32 bits we save.
+ */
+struct cache_time {
+	uint32_t sec;
+	uint32_t nsec;
+};
+
+struct stat_data {
+	struct cache_time sd_ctime;
+	struct cache_time sd_mtime;
+	unsigned int sd_dev;
+	unsigned int sd_ino;
+	unsigned int sd_uid;
+	unsigned int sd_gid;
+	unsigned int sd_size;
+};
+
+#endif
diff --git a/trace2/tr2_sysenv.c b/trace2/tr2_sysenv.c
index a380dcf9105..069786cb927 100644
--- a/trace2/tr2_sysenv.c
+++ b/trace2/tr2_sysenv.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#include "cache.h"
+#include "git-compat-util.h"
 #include "config.h"
 #include "dir.h"
 #include "tr2_sysenv.h"
