Forbid equality checks against 'true' #51805
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Add a Checkstyle rule to forbid equality checks against a literal 'true' value, since this is redundant. Follow up to #51723.
I also built a rule to prohibit logical negations i.e.
!
, but there are thousands of violations, so I left it in place for interest but commented it out. Maybe at some point we'll feel that we want it. It's probably an expensive rule.