Scrub hardcoded Rust toolchain defaultsHEADmain

Teach rust-bootstrap to use the latest system Rust toolchain, derive rust-version only from active rustc when needed, and initialize Git before applying the fresh template in an empty directory.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/template/fresh/Cargo.toml b/template/fresh/Cargo.toml
index ee35453..57d0dd9 100644
--- a/template/fresh/Cargo.toml
+++ b/template/fresh/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# Replace the member list, package metadata, and toolchain/MSRV values deliberately.
+# Replace the member list and package metadata deliberately.
+# If the target records `rust-version`, derive it from the latest system
+# `rustc --version`; do not copy a Rust version from this template.
 
 [workspace]
 members = ["crates/app"]
@@ -7,7 +9,6 @@ resolver = "3"
 [workspace.package]
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
-rust-version = "1.90"
 version = "0.1.0"
 
 [workspace.lints.rust]
diff --git a/template/fresh/crates/app/Cargo.toml b/template/fresh/crates/app/Cargo.toml
index ce1808a..51c7dac 100644
--- a/template/fresh/crates/app/Cargo.toml
+++ b/template/fresh/crates/app/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 name = "app"
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
-rust-version.workspace = true
 version.workspace = true
 
 [lints]
diff --git a/template/fresh/rust-toolchain.toml b/template/fresh/rust-toolchain.toml
index 66f329f..52f2d51 100644
--- a/template/fresh/rust-toolchain.toml
+++ b/template/fresh/rust-toolchain.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+# Non-versioned on purpose: use the active system rustup channel, not a stale
+# Rust version copied from this starter.
+
 [toolchain]
-channel = "1.90.0"
+channel = "stable"
 profile = "minimal"
 components = ["clippy", "rustfmt"]