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Now you need to git-bisect. And the range includes versions that ran in production with three different versions of your DB daemon (MySQL, PostgreSQL, whatever). The version might matter—in fact, look at that, the oldest few commits error on the current version of the DB.

Or you need to try something on another project that uses a different version of your database server. Or you need to pinch-hit on a project that has a half-dozen service dependencies at particular versions, none of which you have installed and running already.

The ability to very easily spin up clean installs of a bunch of services at arbitrary versions is incredibly useful. Containers aren't the only way to do that, but Docker does make it pretty damn convenient.