WP installed in directory, which .htaccess is in effect?

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Per the documentation, when you put your wp installation in a directory, you copy the .htaccess from the install folder to a the root (together with the index.php).

I am trying to minimize the redirects when visitors write http or without www to just one url. But which .htaccess file is in effect? The root one? The directory one? Or both?