diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ReflogReaderTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ReflogReaderTest.java
index dae7cb895..1f2f25d5e 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ReflogReaderTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ReflogReaderTest.java
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -173,4 +177,22 @@ public void testNoLog() throws Exception {
 		assertEquals(0, db.getReflogReader("master").getReverseEntries().size());
 		assertNull(db.getReflogReader("master").getLastEntry());
 	}
+
+	private void setupReflog(String logName, byte[] data)
+			throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+				File logfile = new File(db.getDirectory(), logName);
+				if (!logfile.getParentFile().mkdirs()
+						&& !logfile.getParentFile().isDirectory()) {
+					throw new IOException(
+							"oops, cannot create the directory for the test reflog file"
+									+ logfile);
+				}
+				FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(logfile);
+				try {
+					fileOutputStream.write(data);
+				} finally {
+					fileOutputStream.close();
+				}
+			}
+
 }
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryTestCase.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryTestCase.java
index 2870e4126..ac8881b1f 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryTestCase.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/RepositoryTestCase.java
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -326,22 +325,4 @@ public void run() {
 		repositoriesToClose.add(newRepo);
 		return newRepo;
 	}
-
-	protected void setupReflog(String logName, byte[] data)
-			throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-				File logfile = new File(db.getDirectory(), logName);
-				if (!logfile.getParentFile().mkdirs()
-						&& !logfile.getParentFile().isDirectory()) {
-					throw new IOException(
-							"oops, cannot create the directory for the test reflog file"
-									+ logfile);
-				}
-				FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(logfile);
-				try {
-					fileOutputStream.write(data);
-				} finally {
-					fileOutputStream.close();
-				}
-			}
-
 }