laravel/docs — pull request #908 by awsp (2014-08-29 21:41:07+00:00)
Title: Update quick.md

composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist will install 4.2 by default (at this point).
This pull request will ensure those who are looking at a specific version of Laravel's documentation and fire up the corresponded version of Laravel.

Reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23754260/installing-specific-laravel-version-via-composer-create-project