diff --git a/shallow_backup/printing.py b/shallow_backup/printing.py
index f16bd5ed..ee0857c8 100644
--- a/shallow_backup/printing.py
+++ b/shallow_backup/printing.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import inquirer
 from colorama import Fore, Style
 from .constants import ProjInfo
-
+from typing import List, Set, Union
 
 def print_blue(text):
     print(Fore.BLUE + text + Style.RESET_ALL)
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ def print_path_green(text, path):
     print(Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + text, Style.NORMAL + path + Style.RESET_ALL)
 
 
+def print_list_pretty(items_to_print: Union[Set, List], style=Style.BRIGHT, color=Fore.RED):
+    print(f"{style}{color}")
+    for x in items_to_print:
+        print(f" - {x}")
+    print(Style.RESET_ALL)
+
+
 def print_dry_run_copy_info(source, dest):
     """Show source -> dest copy. Replaces expanded ~ with ~ if it's at the beginning of paths.
     source and dest are trimmed in the middle if needed. Removed characters will be replaced by ...
diff --git a/shallow_backup/reinstall.py b/shallow_backup/reinstall.py
index cdf67260..7fd68c40 100644
--- a/shallow_backup/reinstall.py
+++ b/shallow_backup/reinstall.py
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
     get_abs_path_subfiles,
     exit_if_dir_is_empty,
     safe_mkdir,
-    evaluate_condition,
+    evaluate_condition, find_path_for_permission_error_reporting,
 )
 from .printing import *
 from colorama import Fore, Style
 from .compatibility import *
 from .config import get_config
-from pathlib import Path
+from pathlib import Path, PurePath
 from shutil import copytree, copyfile, copy
 
 # NOTE: Naming convention is like this since the CLI flags would otherwise
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ def reinstall_dots_sb(
             dest = source.replace(dots_path, home_path + "/")
         full_path_dotfiles_to_reinstall.append((Path(source), Path(dest)))
 
+    files_with_permission_errors = set()
     # Copy files from backup to system
     for dot_source, dot_dest in full_path_dotfiles_to_reinstall:
         if dry_run:
@@ -88,12 +89,17 @@ def reinstall_dots_sb(
         try:
             copy(dot_source, dot_dest)
         except PermissionError as err:
-            print_red_bold(f"ERROR: {err}")
+            files_with_permission_errors.add(find_path_for_permission_error_reporting(err.filename))
         except FileNotFoundError as err:
             print_red_bold(f"ERROR: {err}")
 
     if reinstallation_error_count != 0:
-        print_red_bold(f"\n\nSome errors which require manual resolution detected.")
+        print_red_bold(f"\nSome errors which require manual resolution detected.")
+
+    num_permission_errors = len(files_with_permission_errors)
+    if num_permission_errors != 0:
+        print_red_bold(f"\n{num_permission_errors} permission errors detected. Most of the time, this is not a problem.\nGit repos will have some read-only files, and will prevent you from writing to them without using sudo.\nAdditionally, some package managers (like zcomet, etc) make their install files read-only.\nYou should update these files using the respective tools that created them.\nThe following paths were problematic:")
+        print_list_pretty(sorted(files_with_permission_errors))
 
     print_section_header("DOTFILE REINSTALLATION COMPLETED", Fore.BLUE)
 
diff --git a/shallow_backup/utils.py b/shallow_backup/utils.py
index ac2a20ff..8e8c7503 100644
--- a/shallow_backup/utils.py
+++ b/shallow_backup/utils.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 from shlex import split
 import shutil
 from shutil import rmtree, copytree, copyfile
-from typing import List, Union
+from pathlib import Path
+from re import fullmatch
 from .printing import *
 
 
@@ -240,3 +241,21 @@ def strip_home(full_path):
         return full_path.replace(home_path + "/", "")
     else:
         return full_path
+
+
+def find_path_for_permission_error_reporting(path_maybe_containing_git_dir: str):
+    """Given a path containing a git directory, return the path to the git dir.
+    This will be used to create a set of git dirs we ran into errors while reinstalling.
+    ~/.config/zsh/.zinit/plugins/changyuheng---zsh-interactive-cd/.git/objects/62/5373abf600839f2fdcd5c6d13184a1fe6dc708
+   will turn into
+   ~/.config/zsh/.zinit/plugins/changyuheng---zsh-interactive-cd/.git"""
+
+    if not fullmatch(".*/.git/(.*/)?objects/.*", path_maybe_containing_git_dir):
+        return path_maybe_containing_git_dir
+
+    candidate_for_git_repo_home = Path(path_maybe_containing_git_dir).parent
+    while candidate_for_git_repo_home.name != ".git":
+        candidate_for_git_repo_home = candidate_for_git_repo_home.parent
+
+    return str(candidate_for_git_repo_home)
+