Remove some unnecessary code, update NEWS.

NEWS

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
  * Add ssh_kwargs attribute to ParamikoSSHVendor. (milki)
 
+ * Add Repo.set_description(). (Víðir Valberg Guðmundsson)
+
 0.9.3	2013-09-27
 
  BUG FIXES

dulwich/repo.py

@@ -1487,15 +1487,11 @@ class Repo(BaseRepo):
         """
 
         path = os.path.join(self._controldir, 'description')
+        f = open(path, 'w')
         try:
-            f = open(path, 'w')
-            try:
-                f.write(description)
-            finally:
-                f.close()
-        except (IOError, OSError), e:
-            if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
-                raise
+            f.write(description)
+        finally:
+            f.close()
 
     @classmethod
     def _init_maybe_bare(cls, path, bare):

dulwich/tests/test_repository.py

@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ class RepositoryTests(TestCase):
 
     def test_set_description(self):
         r = self._repo = open_repo('a.git')
-        f = open(os.path.join(r.path, 'description'), 'w')
         description = "Some description"
         r.set_description(description)
         self.assertEquals(description, r.get_description())