From 0088d4cc6071fcd4da7f68a0f2bf462bb63853d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lawrence Qiu <lawrenceqiu@google.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 11:58:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore: Redirect users to google-cloud-java

---
 README.md | 2 ++
 owlbot.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62bf4eba4a7..d34cbd74130 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**_THIS REPOSITORY IS DEPRECATED. ALL OF ITS CONTENT AND HISTORY HAS BEEN MOVED TO [GOOGLE-CLOUD-JAVA](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/main/java-spanner)_**
+
 # Google Cloud Spanner Client for Java
 
 Java idiomatic client for [Cloud Spanner][product-docs].
diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index 5765d1df17f..6c654ed80a0 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
         ".kokoro/build.sh",
         ".kokoro/dependencies.sh",
         ".kokoro/requirements.in",
-        ".kokoro/requirements.txt"
+        ".kokoro/requirements.txt",
+        "README.md"
     ]
 )