#About These scripts are designed to consume an existing OSM minute-replicate (as produced by Osmosis) on the local file system and apply these diffs to an existing .osm extract, thereby patching your .osm file with the changes present in the minute-replicate. These scripts are simply wrappers around Osmosis.
These scripts don't apply each one minute .osc.gz file individually to the .osm extract, rather they group together a bunch of one minute files together and applies that bunch at once to your .osm extract.