diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-compute/synth.metadata b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-compute/synth.metadata
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+{
+  "sources": [
+    {
+      "git": {
+        "name": "discovery-artifact-manager",
+        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/discovery-artifact-manager.git",
+        "sha": "a9ad6864005998b4acb91a1647d34daab9a79624"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "generator": {
+        "name": "artman",
+        "version": "0.16.0",
+        "dockerImage": "googleapis/artman@sha256:90f9d15e9bad675aeecd586725bce48f5667ffe7d5fc4d1e96d51ff34304815b"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
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