[Quilt-dev] How is one supposed to use guards(1) alongside quilt(1)?

[Xavier Morel]

The guards(1) utility is packaged as part of the quilt distribution, but 
it's a bit unclear how it's supposed to be used, possibly more so 
because I have experience with Mercurial's `mq` where guards are 
supported natively. I have looked at the man pages, but didn't find 
explanations of using the two together, and while the README

Does quilt(1) have some sort of integration so guards(1) is 
automatically applied before quilt(1) looks at the series file, or does 
guards(1) have to be explicitely applied to a series-file-with-guards in 
order to generate series files, with new patches then having to be 
copied manually to the "reference" file with guards? Or some other way I 
did not think of?