From d74621410009f6cff541d5cabf0ff7d54223d2d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meesters <meesters@uni-mainz.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 12:34:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: #348 no attempts to jobstep executor

---
 snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py b/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
index 583b077..27c9367 100644
--- a/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
+++ b/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
@@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ def run_job(self, job: JobExecutorInterface):
 
         exec_job = self.format_job_exec(job)
 
+        # Prevent forwarding Snakemake retry attempts into the remote
+        # jobstep. Convert any "--attempt <n>" or "--attempt=<n>" to
+        # a single attempt in the remote context.
+        exec_job = re.sub(r"--attempt(?:[=\s]+)\d+", "--attempt 1", exec_job)
+
         # and finally the job to execute with all the snakemake parameters
         call += f' --wrap="{exec_job}"'