See original discussion here: https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/discussions/657260
Unfortunately there's probably not good docs on it right now (that I'm aware of). The problem is that the repo contains several different projects: MVC, Web API, Razor, and Web Pages. Each one has its own version (they came out at different times). So because of that, there isn't one simple version tag that we can use.
We're looking to clean some stuff up in this repo, so I'll make a note to add some doc/wiki entry that explains the tags/branches in the repo.