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From: Yoshi Automation Bot <yoshi-automation@google.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:47:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: update CONTRIBUTING.md to include code formatting
 (#534) (#273)

Co-authored-by: Jeff Ching <chingor@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Rennie <rennie@google.com>

Source-Author: Brian Chen <chenbrian@google.com>
Source-Date: Tue May 12 10:24:59 2020 -0700
Source-Repo: googleapis/synthtool
Source-Sha: 5b48b0716a36ca069db3038da7e205c87a22ed19
Source-Link: https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool/commit/5b48b0716a36ca069db3038da7e205c87a22ed19
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 11 ++++++++++-
 synth.metadata  |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 085021ddec..f2dbdee06b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -99,7 +99,16 @@ mvn -Penable-samples clean verify
     ```
 
 2. [Activate](#profile-activation) the profile.
-3. Define your samples in a normal Maven project in the `samples/` directory
+3. Define your samples in a normal Maven project in the `samples/` directory.
+
+### Code Formatting
+
+Code in this repo is formatted with
+[google-java-format](https://github.com/google/google-java-format).
+To run formatting on your project, you can run:
+```
+mvn com.coveo:fmt-maven-plugin:format
+```
 
 ### Profile Activation
 
diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
index 84476fa9b6..3686a808b1 100644
--- a/synth.metadata
+++ b/synth.metadata
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
       "git": {
         "name": "synthtool",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
-        "sha": "98c50772ec23295c64cf0d2ddf199ea52961fd4c"
+        "sha": "5b48b0716a36ca069db3038da7e205c87a22ed19"
       }
     }
   ],