diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 2f21704da9..71e2fe74c4 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -39,27 +39,6 @@
 #define S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ	0x80000000
 
 
-/*
- * Intensive research over the course of many years has shown that
- * port 9418 is totally unused by anything else. Or
- *
- *	Your search - "port 9418" - did not match any documents.
- *
- * as www.google.com puts it.
- *
- * This port has been properly assigned for git use by IANA:
- * git (Assigned-9418) [I06-050728-0001].
- *
- *	git  9418/tcp   git pack transfer service
- *	git  9418/udp   git pack transfer service
- *
- * with Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> as the point of
- * contact. September 2005.
- *
- * See http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
- */
-#define DEFAULT_GIT_PORT 9418
-
 /*
  * Basic data structures for the directory cache
  */
diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index db8a31a6ea..75c3c06457 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "config.h"
 #include "environment.h"
 #include "pkt-line.h"
+#include "protocol.h"
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "setup.h"
 #include "strbuf.h"
diff --git a/protocol.h b/protocol.h
index cef1a4a01c..de66bf80f8 100644
--- a/protocol.h
+++ b/protocol.h
@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 #ifndef PROTOCOL_H
 #define PROTOCOL_H
 
+/*
+ * Intensive research over the course of many years has shown that
+ * port 9418 is totally unused by anything else. Or
+ *
+ *	Your search - "port 9418" - did not match any documents.
+ *
+ * as www.google.com puts it.
+ *
+ * This port has been properly assigned for git use by IANA:
+ * git (Assigned-9418) [I06-050728-0001].
+ *
+ *	git  9418/tcp   git pack transfer service
+ *	git  9418/udp   git pack transfer service
+ *
+ * with Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> as the point of
+ * contact. September 2005.
+ *
+ * See http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
+ */
+#define DEFAULT_GIT_PORT 9418
+
 enum protocol_version {
 	protocol_unknown_version = -1,
 	protocol_v0 = 0,