Re: It's for your own good and you should want it to be too..
Sorry you're holding it wrong (although that should be 'wrongly' or 'incorrectly')
We do the similar things in terms of releases.
There is nothing in SVN you can't do in git - except perhaps to easily remember all the options available. So get a good git client - Tortoise, Kraken, Sourcetree, Fork whatever.
Source control and release management is mainly process not tools.
Though a good choice of tools can simplify things enormously. Have a look at things such as gitlab and others - they are so much more than just git or svn.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
