Is there a way to pass environment variable without declaring into docker-compose file

Question

I am using Visual Studio docker tooling and adding a docker-compose project to my solution and I am also using F5 debugging experience.

I am passing some environment variable within docker-compose-override file,

environment:
  - ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=docker
  - AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=super-secret

Problem is this file is part of source code and I don't want to check-in this file with secret.

Question is, Is there a way to pass environment variable without declaring into docker-compose file ?

Note - I am using visual studio F5 and not running docker-compose command something like docker compose --env-file ./config/.env.dev up.