Site templates should not pin dependencies. It's very bad practice and will result in sites built on these templates getting stuck on potentially insecure, or unsupported, dependencies with no way to update them except by altering composer.json.

We should add this as an explicit no-no in GET-STARTED.md, and enforce it with a smoke test.

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Start within a Git clone of the project using the version control instructions.

Or, if you do not have SSH keys set up on git.drupalcode.org:

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