import OSC on rails port with osmosis

I installed the rails port, imported North Dakota from http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html, edited an area with ID editor, then extracted the diff. Upon looking at the diff output file XML (8 kb), I see all the nodes there and it all looks correct.

I truncated the db, imported the same pbf from Geofabrik, and then I tried to import the diff but it's not working.

Running Osmosis V 0.44.1

osmosis --read-xml-change testChange3.osc --write-apidb-change dbType="postgresql" host="localhost" database="openstreetmap" user="openstreemapPGuser" password="secretPW" validateSchemaVersion="no"

Says it completed, but the test road is not actually showing in ID editor.

I also tried truncating the DB again, then importing a combined file which also seems to not work.

osmosis  --read-xml-change file="testChange3.osc" --read-pbf file="north-dakota-latest.osm.pbf" --apply-change --write-xml file="output.osm"

I also tried downloading an OSC from ID editor which provides "new" node ids such as "<node id="-8"..." Osmosis generates the error "The entity timestamp attribute is missing."

How is an OSC supposed to be imported so that it's visible within the ID editor?