private boolean setColumnPreferredSize() {
   boolean sizeCalculated = false;
   Font tableFont = UIManager.getFont("Table.font");
   for (int i = 0; i < getColumnCount(); i++) {
     TableColumn column = getColumnModel().getColumn(i);
     if (i == GraphTableModel.ROOT_COLUMN) { // thin stripe, or root name, or nothing
       setRootColumnSize(column);
     } else if (i
         == GraphTableModel.COMMIT_COLUMN) { // let commit message occupy as much as possible
       column.setPreferredWidth(Short.MAX_VALUE);
     } else if (i == GraphTableModel.AUTHOR_COLUMN) { // detect author with the longest name
       // to avoid querying the last row (it would lead to full graph loading)
       int maxRowsToCheck =
           Math.min(MAX_ROWS_TO_CALC_WIDTH, getRowCount() - MAX_ROWS_TO_CALC_OFFSET);
       if (maxRowsToCheck < 0) { // but if the log is small, check all of them
         maxRowsToCheck = getRowCount();
       }
       int maxWidth = 0;
       for (int row = 0; row < maxRowsToCheck; row++) {
         String value = getModel().getValueAt(row, i).toString();
         maxWidth = Math.max(getFontMetrics(tableFont).stringWidth(value), maxWidth);
         if (!value.isEmpty()) sizeCalculated = true;
       }
       column.setMinWidth(
           Math.min(maxWidth + UIUtil.DEFAULT_HGAP, MAX_DEFAULT_AUTHOR_COLUMN_WIDTH));
       column.setWidth(column.getMinWidth());
     } else if (i == GraphTableModel.DATE_COLUMN) { // all dates have nearly equal sizes
       column.setMinWidth(
           getFontMetrics(tableFont)
               .stringWidth("mm" + DateFormatUtil.formatDateTime(new Date())));
       column.setWidth(column.getMinWidth());
     }
   }
   return sizeCalculated;
 }
  private void setRootColumnSize(TableColumn column) {
    int rootWidth;
    if (!myUI.isMultipleRoots()) {
      rootWidth = 0;
    } else if (!myUI.isShowRootNames()) {
      rootWidth = ROOT_INDICATOR_WIDTH;
    } else {
      rootWidth = Math.min(calculateMaxRootWidth(), ROOT_NAME_MAX_WIDTH);
    }

    // NB: all further instructions and their order are important, otherwise the minimum size which
    // is less than 15 won't be applied
    column.setMinWidth(rootWidth);
    column.setMaxWidth(rootWidth);
    column.setPreferredWidth(rootWidth);
  }