diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 41bfc7d39..161bd4495 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-datastore)_**
+
 # Google Cloud Datastore Client for Java
 
 Java idiomatic client for [Cloud Datastore][product-docs].
diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index a858b7366..ed4c04f2e 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 
 s.remove_staging_dirs()
 java.common_templates(excludes=[
+    'README.md',
     '.kokoro/build.sh',
     '.kokoro/presubmit/integration.cfg',
     '.kokoro/presubmit/graalvm-native.cfg',