diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
index 61f6fb568eb..1b230df0335 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ $Id$
 
 ==================  3.4.0-dev ==============
 
+Bug Fixes
+----------------------
 * SOLR-2644: When using threads=2 the default logging is set too high (Bill Bell via shalin)
+* SOLR-2492: DIH does not commit if only deletes are processed (James Dyer via shalin)
 
 ==================  3.3.0 ==================
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DocBuilder.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DocBuilder.java
index 260cb72d309..fed23064f5f 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DocBuilder.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DocBuilder.java
@@ -703,20 +703,24 @@ public class DocBuilder {
         Collection collection = (Collection) value;
         for (Object o : collection) {
           writer.deleteDoc(o.toString());
+          importStatistics.deletedDocCount.incrementAndGet();
         }
       } else {
         writer.deleteDoc(value);
+        importStatistics.deletedDocCount.incrementAndGet();
       }
-    }
+    }    
     value = arow.get("$deleteDocByQuery");
     if (value != null) {
       if (value instanceof Collection) {
         Collection collection = (Collection) value;
         for (Object o : collection) {
           writer.deleteByQuery(o.toString());
+          importStatistics.deletedDocCount.incrementAndGet();
         }
       } else {
         writer.deleteByQuery(value.toString());
+        importStatistics.deletedDocCount.incrementAndGet();
       }
     }
     value = arow.get("$docBoost");
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestDocBuilder2.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestDocBuilder2.java
index daa32cab7bf..d6c7b8b9bb3 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestDocBuilder2.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestDocBuilder2.java
@@ -225,6 +225,16 @@ public class TestDocBuilder2 extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
     assertTrue("Update request processor processDelete was not called", TestUpdateRequestProcessor.processDeleteCalled);
     assertTrue("Update request processor finish was not called", TestUpdateRequestProcessor.finishCalled);
     
+    MockDataSource.clearCache();
+    rows = new ArrayList();
+    rows.add(createMap("$deleteDocById", "3"));
+    MockDataSource.setIterator("select * from x", rows.iterator());
+    runFullImport(dataConfigForSkipTransform, createMap("clean","false"));
+    assertQ(req("id:3"), "//*[@numFound='0']");
+    
+    assertTrue("Update request processor processDelete was not called", TestUpdateRequestProcessor.processDeleteCalled);
+    assertTrue("Update request processor finish was not called", TestUpdateRequestProcessor.finishCalled);
+    
   }
 
   @Test