# Provenance

### What is Provenance?

Provenance refers to the author, region of commits on your source code.

It illustrates the history of your code so you can better understand the origins and trustworthiness of the software.

### Understanding Provenance

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* Count of components that are with provenance information is displayed towards left, along with the category of the components (open-source, private, third-party, unknown).
* The top countries contributing to the code commits is displayed in the middle
* The top authors contributing code is listed towards the right.
* Each tile is clickable which will list down the components applicable to that filter in a table view. The details will list the component name, version, supplier, a capsule for contributors and a capsule for countries.
* By clicking the capsule, next level details will be shown.
* By clicking on any row, the sidesheet shows up.

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